After almost a year of being provisionally released, former Prime Minister and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) president Ivo Sanader will be brought to the Zagreb County Court on Monday from Remetinec prison in handcuffs again.
Sanader was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years' imprisonment for taking a commission from the Austrian Hypo bank and a bribe from the Hungarian oil company MOL in exchange for management rights in Croatia's INA. That was his last day as a free man since 16 December 2011, when he was released on bail from custody in which he had been placed on 18 July 2011, when Austria extradited him to Croatia.
Next Monday, Sanader will arrive at the Zagreb County Court for a hearing in the Fimi Media corruption trial from Remetinec escorted by judicial police and not from his home in Zagreb.
Sanader was released from Remetinec last December after the Constitutional Court ruled that the reasons to keep him in custody were not founded. Since the court feared he might flee the country again, his passport was seized and he was banned from leaving Zagreb without permission. He also had to post HRK 12.4 million bail.
