The Zagreb County Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals submitted by the family of former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader and his business partner as groundless against the freezing of the family's private bank accounts and the blockade of business facilities.
Sanader's lawyers appealed court rulings on the freezing of several private bank accounts and on the temporary closure of the offices in Sarengradska Ulica Street in Zagreb as well as the blockade of Sanader's share in the "Perbujac" and "Alia Savjetovanje" companies.
The latest decision of the Zagreb court to dismiss the appeal does not cover the appeal against the temporary seizure of the Sanader family's art collection. This appeal is still being considered.
Zagreb lawyer Goran Suic, who today visited his client Sanader in the extradition custody in Salzburg, said that Sanader had reiterated his concern over the treatment of his wife and daughter in Zagreb by the Croatian authorities.
"Our client has no objections to the accommodation and treatment of the Austrian judicial authorities towards him. He is only worried about the Croatian authorities' treatment of his wife and daughter in Zagreb," Suic told media after his two-hour visit to Sanader.
Police investigators again arrived at the Sanader family's house in Zagreb on Wednesday.
Suic declined to give any more information about his talks with Sanader, who has been in extradition custody in Austria since his arrest on December 10 on a warrant issued by Croatia on suspicion of involvement in corruption.
In the meantime Austria launched an investigation into a money laundering case implicating the former Croatian premier.
