Croatian Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko has said that the former Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA), which he was at the helm of, was not independently and directly cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), adding that POA "analysed" the authenticity of the transcript of the so-called Brijuni meeting, after which it forwarded it to the State Prosecutor's Office.
"POA never independently or directly cooperated with the Hague tribunal nor did it hand over this or any other document," Karamarko told an extraordinary press conference on Friday, which was called following statements by former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic who claims that he and his office never directly forwarded any of the so-called Tudjman transcripts to The Hague and that the original audio file from the Brijuni meeting was found in the basement of the State Archive by POA, at the helm of which was Karamarko. Mesic claims that POA took the recording and confirmed its authenticity, after which the evidence was forwarded to the Hague tribunal.
