Zagreb police on Thursday evening briefly would not allow former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's wife Mirjana and daughter Bruna to enter their house in Zagreb and took their passports, but returned them shortly afterwards, Sanader's attorney Ivan Lovric said, while Interior Ministry spokesman Krunoslav Borovec said the police were checking who was entering and leaving the house, at a judge's orders, due to valuables.
"They weren't arrested, only had their passports and identity documents taken, which were later returned," Lovric said, adding the house had not been searched, that he did not know why the police had acted this way, and that Mirjana and Bruna were not being investigated.
Sanader has been in extradition custody in Salzburg since December 10, when he was arrested in Austria on a Croatian warrant over corruption.
The prosecutor's office in Innsbruck has also launched an investigation into Sanader after a Tyrolean bank reported him for money laundering. Also investigated in this case is a relative of Sanader's and a third person.
