Lawyers for former Deputy Prime Minister Radimir Cacic will ask the Supreme Court to reduce his 22-month prison sentence for causing a fatal car accident in Hungary three years ago, the Zagreb County Court confirmed on Monday.
"We will ask for a slightly more lenient sentence," one of the lawyers, Cedo Prodanovic, told the media. He said that the Hungarian authorities would not agree to a drastically reduced or suspended sentence even if it were upheld by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold an open session on April 24 to consider Cacic's appeal to the decision by a panel of Zagreb County Court judges to fully accept the Hungarian court ruling in the case.
The court in Kaposvar last November sentenced Cacic to 22 months' imprisonment for causing a car accident on a motorway in Hungary in January 2010 in which two people were killed. Cacic immediately resigned as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and asked the Hungarian authorities for permission to serve his sentence in Croatia. He will be allowed to do so only after the decision of the Croatian court is approved by the Hungarian Ministry of Justice.
