The national anti-corruption office USKOK will ask the Zagreb County Court investigating judge to keep Mladen Barisic, former director of the Customs Administration and former treasurer of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, in investigative custody for 30 days on suspicion of fraud relating to the Fimi Media scandal, Chief Public Prosecutor Mladen Bajic said on Thursday.
Bajic was speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary Home Affairs Committee.
Bajic declined to comment on the two million kuna that had reportedly been found in Barisic's possession, nor would he say whether the investigation was closing in on former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
Earlier in the day Barisic was taken before the investigating judge who was to decide on USKOK's request.
