ZAGREB, March 19, 2019 – Justice Minister Dražen Bošnjaković said on Monday that he had ordered an analysis of the ministry’s reports based on which President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović issued a pardon for Danko Seiter, who has been found guilty of economic crime and who is being prosecuted in another case for economic crime.
Bošnjaković said that at the time when the reports were compiled he was not at the helm of the Justice Ministry but that he had ordered that the reports be analysed.
“If the ministry’s reports prove that (ministry officials) failed to perceive the fact that proceedings were under way against the person in question, we will react,” Bošnjaković said.
Asked about a new pardon law, Bošnjaković said that his ministry had drafted a new proposal.
“We have defined most things and the bill will be put forward very soon… in the next 30 days,” said the minister.
Commenting on her pardon for Seiter, who has been found guilty of economic crime in a case that also involved her campaign donor Nikola Hanzel and who is being prosecuted in another case for economic crime, Grabar-Kitarović said earlier in the day that she had not been aware that another case was under way against Seiter and that the Justice Ministry, which proposed that she pardon him, had not been aware of that either.
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