The former head of the Customs Administration and treasurer of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Mladen Barisic, will stay in investigative detention for another two months, Zagreb County Court investigating judge Kresimir Devcic ruled on Thursday at the proposal of the national anti-corruption agency USKOK.
Barisic, who has been in custody since September 30, is suspected of siphoning off HRK 40 million from state-owned companies and government departments through the Fimi Media marketing firm, owned by his friend, Nevenka Jurak.
The detention was extended because there was a risk that he might try to influence some of the 50 or so witnesses in the case.
