ON ZAGOREC VERDICT
MARCH 3 2009 12:48h
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The Cultural Council believes the invalid verdict to general Zagorec is unsustainable. It severely threatened civil rights, they say.
The Croatian Cultural Council (HKV) has announced it believes the verdict to retired Croatian general Vladimir Zagorec is unsustainable. He was invalidly sentenced to seven years in prison and has to pay 5 million dollars, which is the value of the jewels he stole from the Croatian Defence Ministry, according to his indictment.
- This verdicts essentially means that any Croatian citizen can be sentenced without any material evidence, with the testimony of a person whose credibility is questionable – the announcement of the HKV reads, signed by its president Hrvoje Hitrec.
The court believes that the testimony of Hrvoje Petrac is true. It is clear from his letters to Ivo Pukanic that he has seen the jewels. What he has written, that he has “opened” your case, does not mean he has framed something to you, and as the witness said himself, that letter was written post festum, which means after his trial.

They add that this severely threatens the rights of citizens and legal security is, while the entire Croatian justice system is suspected of performing orders from centres of political power.
Judge Sinisa Plese said as he announced the verdict to Zagorec, it was without a doubt that Zagorec has committed a felony, which is evident from the testimonies of Snjezana Siprak, Hrvoje Petrac and Terezija Barbaric.
The judge added that no conspiracy theory of the state, justice system, media and the criminal underground was in question, as Zagorec said during his trial.
In the verdict explanation, Plese pointed out that the testimonies of the witnesses were harmonised and that the court assessed them as credible.
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