Zagreb, July 9 (CP) – The Interior Minister Berislav Roncevic is to soon face the USKOK Anti-corruption Agency boss Dinko Cvitan over truck procurement, which lost the state budget some 14.8 million kuna in 2004.
When he was Defence Minister in 2004, Roncevic put out a tender for the procurement of 76 non-combat vehicles for which […]
Zagreb, July 1 (CP) — Most of Tuesday’s proceedings at the Gotovina, Cermak and Markac trial at the ICTY in The Hague was held behind closed doors as a protected witness took the stand.
The Prosecution has interrogated the witness 86 for six hours and the defence has asked for even more time for cross-examination, as […]
Zagreb, June 22 (CP) – A joint action of the Dubrovnik, Split and Zagreb police helped by the USKOK anti-corruption agency has resulted in the confiscation of five kilos of top quality cocaine.
The drugs were hidden in a handbag of a 27-year-old Paraguay woman who smuggled the drugs into Dubrovnik where she was awaited by […]
Zagreb, July 14 (CP) – The Croatian government has established a new police body The Police National Office for Quashing Corruption and Organised Crime, the operation carried out in secret.
The new national organisation, mimicking that of the US FBI should become an effective means for more in-depth investigation into organised crime and corruption.
Once the new […]
Zagreb, June 13 (CP) – A 43-year-old Irish citizen was robbed of his video camera on Thursday in the central Dalmatian coastal town of Zadar.
The video camera went missing from his bag as he walked down a Zadar street.
The stolen camera is valued at about 7,000 kuna.
Zagreb, June 12 (CP) – The Croatian economy loses about six billion kuna annually due to corruption.
The head of the anti-corruption agency USKOK Dinko Cvitan called on all state institutions and not only the police to report on corruption within their ranks even when they have not valid evidence, but only suspect corruption.
The president of […]
Zagreb, June 8 (CP) – A Swedish national was robbed of some money and a EURO2008 soccer championships ticket on Saturday in Zagreb.
The 22-year-old had arrived in Zagreb on Friday and met two men that he spent the day with. Later, another Swede arrived and joined the group and the two were offered to sleep in […]
Zagreb, May 6 (CP) – The Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) is holding a silent protest at Zagreb’s Kamenita Vrata monument and march to the upper town’s Mark’s Square following an attack on their colleague and a general rise of violent attacks on journalists.
The latest incident happened on Monday, when crime reporter Dusan Miljus was savagely […]
Zagreb, June 5 (CP) – Two Croatian sailors from the northern port of Rijeka have been jailed in Panama on drug smuggling charges.
The two men have been placed in a Panama jail after the police found small quantities of cocaine and heroin on their ship Therese administered by the Croatian Split Ship Management shipping company.
The […]
Zagreb, June 4 (CP) – The daughter of the late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, Nevenka, is to go on trial on Thursday for the third time on charges of using her position to secure jobs for a business partner and receiving commission for this.
She was acquitted twice and twice the Supreme Court overturned the ruling […]
