Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's condition is stable, his heart rhythm is being continuously monitored and his pressure is being measured at regular intervals, a doctor on duty in the Clinic for Heart and Coronary Diseases at the KBC Rebro hospital in Zagreb said on Sunday.
Sanader was hospitalised in the clinic after the beginning of his trial at the Zagreb County Court on Friday morning, after informing the trial chamber that he did not feel well. After that the trial chamber accepted an opinion by a court expert witness that Sanader was not fit to stand the beginning of the trial in the Hypo bank loan case which was why his arraignment was adjourned until next Thursday, 3 November.
Upon Sanader's admittance to hospital on Friday afternoon, coronary catheterization was performed on him. The clinic's head, Dr. Davor Milicic, said then that an x-ray of the coronary arteries showed certain changes in the arteries, but they were not such as to require any procedure.
Sanader was detained in the hospital over the weekend for further tests.
The former PM and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) president goes on trial on charges of war profiteering. He is suspected of having taken in the mid-1990s, when he was Deputy Foreign Minister, 3.6 million kuna in commission for a loan Croatia got from the Austrian Hypo bank.
This is the first case against Sanader which has entered the trial stage. Sanader has been in the custody of the Remetinec prison since mid-July when he was extradited by Austria. He is under investigation in a few other white-collar crime cases as well.
