The Chief State Prosecutor's Office (DORH) said on its web site that after an investigation, USKOK filed a lawsuit at the Zagreb County Court against the Croatian nationals D.K., 59, B.R., 55, and A.S., 43, as well as against the Serbian national V.V., 54, for conspiring to commit criminal offences, abuse their powers and conceal illegal gain.

Under the indictment, the accused D.K. and B.R. conspired, in the period between 2002 and 2008, in Zagreb, Mostar, Banja Luka and Graz, to syphon off money from the Agit company.

They hired A.S. and V.V. to open, as authorised representatives of foreign companies, nonresident bank accounts of those companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria. D.K., B.R., A.S. and V.V. then sent, on behalf of those foreign companies, fictitious invoices to the Agit company.

B.R. and A.S., as Agit's CEO and head of one of its business units, approved the invoices and ordered that they be paid.

The money thus paid into the foreign companies' bank accounts was then taken by the indictees abroad, who thus syphoned off from Agit 3.7 million euros, obtaining illegal gain in the amount of 3.2 million euros.

USKOK requested in the indictment that D.K. and B.R. be remanded in investigative custody, DORH said on its web site.

Former HZ director Davorin Kobak and executives of HZ's sister company Agit, Biserka Robic and Andrija Saric, were arrested and placed in custody on 15 July 2009.

An extensive probe was then launched into suspected money laundering in HZ on the suspicion that Agit had been paying fictitious invoices for years. After he was replaced in February 2009, Kobak publicly dismissed the accusations, as well as media reports that he conspired with a former CEO of the Serbian Railways to embezzle government funds, claiming that media attacks on him were launched to divert the public's attention from "some other problems in HZ."