Tadic showed up at the Zagreb County Court today, but Slokovic notified the panel of judges that she could not appear because of her commitments in the Sanader corruption trial. Slokovic said in a brief that the Sanader trial had entered its final stage and requested that the Tadic trial be adjourned, which Judge Zdravko Majerovic granted, setting the main hearing for May 21.
The start of Tadic's trial was already adjourned on March 9 because of his health problems. A preliminary hearing was adjourned in late January because his attorney was ill.
The anti-corruption office USKOK charged Tadic with assembling a group which was to have bribed unidentified Supreme Court judges into changing Glavas's conviction for war crimes against Serb civilians in Osijek in the early 1990s.
Tadic is the only one of the five accused who did not make a plea bargain with USKOK, which offered him a prison sentence of two and a half years.
Ivan Drmic, an MP of the HDSSB party MP, Sanja Marketic, a former deputy editor in chief of Glas Slavonije daily, and Srecko Jurisic, an entrepreneur from Split, made plea deals with USKOK and were given suspended sentences of two years, as did Tadic's wife Bozica Tadic-Cavar, who was given a 15-month suspended sentence.
Glavas was convicted to eight years' imprisonment. He is serving the sentence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he escaped before the verdict was handed down.