Cehok was in detention for a month and ten days.

Cehok has offered HRK 2.6 million bail, which the investigating judge has accepted. One of Cehok's lawyers, Jasna Novak, said the former mayor of the northern Croatian city has offered a mortgage on his home in Varazdin and the land where his mother's house is located, as well as HRK 110,000 in cash.

The anti-corruption agency USKOK has launched an investigation into Cehok and two other men on suspicion of embezzlement.

The investigation has recently been widened against the three on suspicion of conspiracy to make it possible for Varazdin businessman Davor Patafta to buy, with a non-existent amount of 6.2 million kuna, a majority stake in the Varazdin Airport company, which is worth 21 million kuna. Cehok is also suspected of defrauding the city budget by granting two loans worth a total of 4 million kuna to Patafta's company.

Early last week, Cehok resigned as Mayor of Varazdin while in investigative custody in Remetinec Prison. His lawyer told reporters then that this was for legal reasons, because there would be one ground less for his detention -- the risk of repeating the crime, because he is suspected of abuse of the mayoral position.