Government spokesman Mladen Pavic said on Thursday Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor was willing to withdraw a memo she had sent to the Croatian Bar Association (HOK) last year if the memo prevented Zagreb attorney Anto Nobilo from doing his job.
The PM is against banning anyone from doing their job and is willing to withdraw the memo if it prevents Nobilo from working, Pavic told press in the wake of a HOK decision banning Nobilo from practising as an attorney for six months and fining him HRK 30,000.
Nobilo announced earlier today he would appeal the decision.
Disciplinary proceedings were launched against him in May 2010 over his interview with Globus weekly where he spoke as the legal representative of former Deputy PM Damir Polancec.
Nobilo told Globus that investigators were trying to narrow down the investigation of Polancec in order to protect members of the government and force Polancec to testify against former PM Ivo Sanader.
Nobilo believes he is being politically persecuted and that HOK acted on Kosor's memo.
"I am being persecuted because I was politically hurting the government," Nobilo told reporters on Thursday.
Pavic said Kosor sent the memo to HOK on May 14, 2010, "dismissing Nobilo's claims that his client Polancec was on a political trial."
Pavic said Nobilo's claims in the interview and his statement after HOK's decision today constituted pressure on the judiciary.
