Croatia Crime News
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Zagreb, April 21 (CP) – The police have arrested two men suspected of being involved in last week’s robbery of a security van in front of a Zagrebacka Banka branch.
The third suspect is still at large.
The police refused to say whether the stolen money was recovered, due to the investigation still being in full swing.
One […]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Zagreb, April 21 (CP) – A Croatian Homeland war veteran destroyed his neighbours house and killed himself in the process in Vulisinac near Lepoglava on Sunday evening.
It is not clear what drove the veteran to commit such a terrible act, but it is believed the explosion came after an altercation with his neighbour when he […]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Zagreb, April 19 (CP) – Veljko Miljevic, the lawyer representing Ivo Pukanic has confirmed that a substance which has as yet not been tested has been found in the family safe at the home of the journalist Ivo Pukanic’s home and that the substance might be cocaine.
Miljevic said that the search of the flat was […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Zagreb, April 18 (CP) – The ruling in the case of the former employees of Rijecka Banka bank accused of embezzling $96.2 million has been announced with the Bank’s chief foreign currency trader Eduard Nodilo being sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and the other five accused including the Bank’s director acquitted.
Nodilo will also have […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Zagreb, April 18 (CP) – Unofficial reports claim the Dubrovnik police tried to ignore and avoid informing the media of a recent attack on American students.
After receiving queries from journalists interested in the case, the police denied there had been an incident and the American students from the Emerson college from Boston, who were the […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Zagreb, April 18 (CP) – A branch of Zagrabacka Banka bank was robbed on Friday morning with armed gunmen attacking security guards moving the money from the branch.
The gunmen robbed the guards who later shot at them, but did not stop them in fleeing the scene in a car where an accomplice was waiting for […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Zagreb, April 17 (CP) – The police are investigating allegations made by Mirjana Pukanic the wife of journalist and co-owner of the Nacional weekly Ivo Pukanic against him.
The wife has accused Pukanic of rape, long-term molestation and drug abuse.
The charges were filed a few days ago when Mirjana Pukanic was released from a mental hospital […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Zagreb, April 17 (CP) – Three members of the US military are to give their account of events in operation Storm as part of the Ante Gotovna defence at the ICTY operation Storm trial of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak.
This is the first time the US Defence Ministry has given the […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Zagreb, April 17 (CP) – Pavle Strugar, a former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army (JNA) commander responsible for the shelling of the Croatian ancient walled city of Dubrovnik is to be temporarily freed from jail on compassionate grounds.
Although his first request for temporary release was rejected on insufficient evidence as he claimed his siblings were ill, just […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The state attorney’s office officials and the police are checking the claims about the police cover-up of illegal drugs being used at the Zagreb home of the Pukanic family, reports the Slobodna Dalmacija daily.
The police have allegedly known of cocaine being kept in the safe in the Pukanic home since 2007.
At the start of 2008 […]
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