The clubs praised the draft amendments which would make it possible for USKOK to have an insight into bank accounts of persons suspected of murky business dealings, but some MPs warned that USKOK should be monitored in such activities so as to prevent any case of encroaching on constitutional and human rights.
Ingrid Anticevic-Marinovic of the Social Democratic Party said the confidentiality of bank information had so far been one of the fundamental obstacles in the fight against the said forms of crimes.
Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) said Croatia must not become a police state and that the activities of USKOK must be controlled so as to prevent the violation of human rights.
Kajin believes that it would be necessary to clearly define the powers of a department for international cooperation and joint investigations, the establishment of which is envisaged by the draft amendments, so as to clearly define conditions under which foreign investigators and secret agents could work in Croatia.
Endorsing the proposals, other clubs of parliamentary parties also made some remarks on the matter such as the possibility of severely punishing those who report criminal acts which had not been committed and who thus would like to frame 'alleged' perpetrators.