The Croatian national, a client of Ljubljanska Banka, demanded in the proceedings before the Ljubljana court to be given back her foreign exchange savings in the amount of US $1,430.

Her attorney Pavel Pensa said the court acknowledged the plaintiff's right to be given back the principal, turning down her claim for the interest accrued.

This was the first trial against the former Ljubljanska Banka since the Slovenian Constitutional Court in December last year unblocked proceedings the bank's clients had launched against it before Slovenian courts.

According to previously published information, under the ruling of the Slovenian Constitutional Court, trials will continue before Slovenian courts in some 140 cases, most of which refer to Croatian clients holding foreign exchange savings in the former Ljubljanska Banka, while 20 percent of the cases refer to clients from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Close to 132,000 clients of the former Ljubljanska Banka in Zagreb claim more than EUR 172 million in savings including interest.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, around 165,000 clients of the former Ljubljanska Banka claim around EUR 90 million.

The issue of guarantees for old foreign exchange savings has still not been settled by countries-successors to the former Yugoslavia, and Slovenia insists that the issue should be settled as part of succession to the former state, namely at negotiations to be held under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.