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DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM CROATIA VISITS THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BiH
27.10.2005 (14:03)

SARAJEVO, October 27 (FENA) - Lazo Pajic, Deputy Attorney General from Croatia, arrived today for two days official visit to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. That visit is based on the Protocol on Official Cooperation between State Prosecutor’s Office of Croatia and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, Prosecutor’s Office of BiH said.

Mr. Pajic has been received by the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marinko Jurcevic and Head of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption, John McNair.

On this meeting, Mr. Pajic has informed the Prosecutors Office of BiH that the State Prosecutor’s Office of Croatia holds certain cases in pre-investigative stage regarding money transfers that were performed between Croatian Ministry of Defense and the HVO in BiH in the period from 1996 till the end of 1999.

The purpose of this visit of the Deputy Attorney General from Croatia is to ascertain the facts established by the verdict of the BiH Court in the case against Ante Jelavic, and the collected evidences and the materials related to the facts in that verdict that the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH presented in that case. Those evidences and materials could be, possibly, used in the possible future prosecutions against responsible persons in the Croatian Ministry of Defense.

First instance verdict imposed upon Ante Jelavic by the Court of BiH was not discussed in this meeting.

Mr. Pajic will stay in the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH for the next two days to review the available documentation.

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