Asked if he expected to be summoned by the USKOK anti-corruption office, Kalmeta said he did not but that he would comply if he was summoned.
Kalmeta said that Livakovic, his state secretary when he was minister of transport, had been criminalised and stigmatized in recent years, not by the media but by some individuals in Zadar and the rest of the country.
"It's better not to talk about them, but their turn before the institutions of this state will probably come one day," he told reporters.
Livakovic was taken into police custody on suspicion of siphoning money from Croatian Motorways.