Former prime minister Ivo Sanader reported to the investigating judge of the Zagreb County Court on Monday morning as one of the precautionary measures imposed by the court before he was released from investigative custody in mid-December.
Sanader was to have reported to the court at 9 am, but he arrived by taxi half an hour later because his lawyer Goran Suic had minor problems with his car. He left the court about 20 minutes later.
Sanader declined to comment on charges against him or on the suspension of his former bodyguard Davor Blazevic from the police service for meeting him.
Sanader was granted a provisional release on December 16 after posting HRK 12.6 million (EUR 1.68 million) bail, handing over his passport and promising not to leave his place of residence. He had earlier been ordered to report to the investigating judge every first Monday of the month.
Sanader is on trial for taking an unlawful commission from Austria's Hypo Bank in the mid-1990s to facilitate a loan to Croatia and for receiving bribes from the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL to secure it a dominant role in Croatia's INA. He has recently been charged with siphoning funds from state institutions and companies via the privately-owned marketing firm Fimi Media into the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party's slush funds.
