Benko: I Offered Money to Simunac? That is Funny

I have no idea what is happening, I am not in Zagreb. But that I would offer money for a confession, that is not true, claims the ex chief.

“What did he say? No, I have nothing to do with that. Besides that, the processing was led by the Zagreb Police Headquarters” said the recently replaced chief of police, Marijan Benko to us via telephone. At today’s hearing for the attack on Igor Radjenovic, the accused Miodrag Simunac accused Benko of offering him money for a confession.

Before the judge Sanja Mazlin, Simunac said that Benko and the director of USKOK (Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime) Dinko Cvitan, openly told him to accuse Zagreb’s mayor Milan Bandic, the financial director of the road company “Zagrebacke Ceste” Slobodan Gracin, the former president of Zagreb’s Holding Slobodan Ljubicic, and Stipe Coric from Zagrebacke Ceste.

Benko: Simunac has the right to defend himself

They openly told me to accuse Bandic, Graclin, Ljubicic and Coric. The told me that it was time to get rid of those criminals and that I need to be careful for my children I need to confess that I beat up Radjenovic. After I rejected that, Cvitan offered me and my family asylum. However, I rejected that as well, after which I was visited in the police station by Benko, who offered me money for a confession.

“I would never talk anybody into anything, besides that I can not promise anything to anyone” added Benko.

Even though Simunac is accusing him of offering money for a confession, the recently replaced chief of police is not too concerned about that.

“The man has a right to defend himself, but that is funny. I am too old and have too many years in service, for what? To go and talk somebody into something” he concluded at the end of the conversation.