The Austrian State Attorney's Office investigating corruption on Monday confirmed receipt of a case launched against former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader by prosecutors in Innsbruck following a report accusing Sanader of money laundering, the Austrian news agency APA said.
Declining to reveal details of the case, the spokeswoman for the Vienna-based State Attorney's Office, Eva Habicher, told APA that she would do so by the middle of the week at the earliest.
The file on the investigation into Sanader was sent from Innsbruck to the state attorney for corruption in Vienna last week.
We believe that the Vienna office is in charge of the case, Hansjoerg Mayr, spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Innsbruck, told reporters last Friday.
Tirol Bank has reported Sanader for money laundering and according to its allegations, there is a possibility that Sanader has bank accounts in Tirol that are linked with suspicions against him in Croatia, Mayr said.
If suspicions against Sanader in Austria prove to be true, criminal proceedings could be launched against him, which would delay his extradition to Croatia.
