A lawyer from Split, Zeljko Gulisija, said on Friday he had not yet been formally hired in the case of Ivo Sanader but that he would meet the ex-Croatian Prime Minister, for whose arrest an international warrant has been issued, later today.
"I have not yet been formally hired but Ivo Sanader called me and we agreed to meet today in Zagreb, where I am headed right now," Gulisija told Radio Split. He added that Sanader said his business trip was ending today.
Sanader originally tried to hire Zagreb lawyer Mate Matic, but Matic was told by the anti-corruption agency USKOK that he could not represent Sanader due to a conflict of interest, because he already represents Darko Beuk of the Hrvatske Sume forest management company, one of the suspects in a case in which Sanader is also a suspect.
Matic and Jerko Rosin, a parliamentary deputy of the Croatian Democratic Union and friend of Sanader, said Sanader would return to Croatia this afternoon or in the evening.
