PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT ORDERS PROBE INTO HDZ ALLEGATIONS

ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Parliament President and Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic has said he ordered that an independent institution be entrusted with the task to investigate allegations by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) about the wire- tapping of its offices in the parliament building. #L# Tomcic said on Wednesday afternoon that he had ordered an investigation into claims made by HDZ senior official Vladimir Seks who said earlier in the day that pieces of bugging devices had been found in his party's offices in the Sabor. "The accusations made by the HDZ about its being wire-tapped by SDP (Social Democratic Party) and HSS deserve attention, and should be seriously investigated. A probe should be launched not only into the work of parliament services (Sabor security system which HDZ President Ivo Sanader labelled as the source of the information) but also into those who make such accusations and who should corroborate their statements," Tomcic said. (hina) ms