Blogger Marko Rakar showed up at the police station for the third day running to be present at the police search of a computer and equipment temporarily confiscated from his office and the apartment.
Rakar, who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being connected to the Internet leakage of the so-called homeland war veterans register and was released after ten hours of questioning, expressed expectations he would finally be cleared of all suspicion.
Rakar was supposed to be one of the advisors to President Ivo Josipovic, but Josipovic said Rakar would not be working at his office because he owed the government more than HRK 1 million in taxes.
Rakar, who arrived at the police station accompanied by his attorney Maro Mihocevic, claims he did not publish the so-called veterans register.
After being in the police station for six hours, Rakar said on Thursday the police had found nothing on his computers and that part of his equipment had been given back to him.
The controversial list was leaked on Tuesday evening when an anonymous website www.registarbranitelja.com was set up containing a search engine whereby war veterans can be found by name, identification number and details about their units.
The anonymous creators of the website said the register was incomplete, adding that the website was set up in public interest. They also said that by publishing the register they "are relieving the burden on the government", which, as they said, was expected to make the register public anyway.
Police requested assistance from the Interpol offices in Washington and Wiesbaden, as the web space for the the contentious site had been purchased from the US InvisiHosting company through another company from Dusseldorf.
