Croatia's Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) is destroying compromising documents on Josip Perkovic, who worked for the former Yugoslav state security service, the German weekly Focus said on Sunday, citing sources at the Bavarian crime prevention office (LKA).
Documents with Perkovic's signature are consciously being destroyed, Focus said, adding the documents were related to the murder of Croatian emigrant politician Stjepan Djurekovic in Wolfratshausen near Munich in 1983.
The supreme federal court in Karlsruhe has issued an international warrant for Perkovic's arrest.
Croatia has so far refused to extradite Perkovic and six other suspects in the Djurekovic case for whom Germany has issued warrants.
Focus quoted an unnamed LKA employee as saying that SOA, in light of Croatia's forthcoming accession to the European Union, was busy removing evidence on murky dealings.
A Munich court in 2008 convicted Croatian citizen Krunoslav Prates to lifetime imprisonment for involvement in the Djurekovic murder. During the trial, Perkovic was mentioned a number of times as the person who organised the murder.
