Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has said that she sent President Ivo Josipovic a letter on Tuesday proposing that the National Security Council discuss at a meeting on Friday indications about suspicious capital in the ownership structure of some media and that she would insist on concrete conclusions.
Kosor said that she forwarded her proposal to President Josipovic because the two of them called sessions of the National Security Council together.
"I believe that this is particularly important because in this big and important process that we call 'cleaning up the house' we will not be able to complete the fight against crime and corruption successfully if the origin of capital in individual media companies is not known and if we don't know if there is truth in allegations that very suspicious capital has entered the ownership structure of some media," said Kosor.
"We have proposed that representatives of all institutions that have certain information be invited to the session so that we could open a broad debate about it and make very concrete and precise conclusions," she added.
The PM did not mention by name any media company, but she noted that it was very worrying that there were indications about illicit money from the criminal underworld.
President Josipovic said in Brussels on Tuesday that he would agree to calling a session of the National Security Council on illicit money and organised crime in the media, if and when such a proposal was forwarded to him, and that he would request thorough preparations for the session.
