"Our client isn't accusing anyone, either individuals or the party. He claims that he led the HDZ politically and that others, primarily the party's secretary and accountant, were in charge of organisation and finances," attorney Cedo Prodanovic told press, adding that Sanader, because of five investigations and the fact that he is in custody, had "much more urgent problems that dealing with petty politics which Seks is speculating about."

"He is focused on his defence and isn't interested in any political games. If he had wanted to attack the HDZ, he would have done so publicly and in his depositions and not through the party's former accountant Branka Pavosevic, whom he fired and who is accusing him, among others," said Prodanovic.

He said Seks was not consistent, as be believed Pavosevic's first deposition, in which she accused Sanader, but not the third one in which she allegedly accused the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union), which Seks ascribed to a shady activity on Sanader's part.

Prodanovic said that in the case of "HDZ slush funds", Sanader's defence was that he knew nothing about it and that others were responsible if such funds had existed.

He said the defence team had until the end of the week to respond to the first indictment against Sanader and that they were intensively working on it.

The Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) recently charged Sanader with war profiteering, accusing him of abuse of office in the mid-1990s, when he was a deputy foreign minister, by taking a kickback from Austria's Hypo bank for a loan he had been negotiating for Croatia.