The trial for the siphoning of more than HRK 70 million from state institutions and companies in the Fimi Media case resumed at the court earlier Monday, when transcripts of Barisic's depositions were read out and tapes of them were shown. Barisic admitted to bringing cash to Sanader and filling the HDZ's slush fund with state money.

"Sanader called me and asked that I collect as much money in the euro currency as possible. I took that as an order, as I did before, collected the money and took it to Sanader," Barisic said in one of his depositions.

"I reject this with indignation. He (Barisic) did what he did and he can't say that I ordered him to do that," Sanader said today.

Sanader's lawyer Cedo Prodanovic said the defence team stuck to its claim that Barisic's testimony was untrue and that Barisic's defence was trying to shift the entire responsibility onto Sanader.

The defence team of Sanader's former spokesman Ratko Macek and the lawyers representing the HDZ, which is accused as a legal entity of those wrongdoings, also contested Barisic's statements.

The HDZ lawyers labelled Barisic's statements as contradictory.

"Analysing the defence on cooperation between the (private) Fimi Media company and public companies one can see (Barisic's) attempts to diminish his own responsibility and shift it onto the others," the HDZ lawyer Davorin Budin said.

The trial resumes on Tuesday with former HDZ accountant Branka Pavosevic, who already pleaded guilty, giving her testimony.

Apart from Barisic and Pavosevic, the defendants who pleaded guilty were Fimi Media owner Nevenka Jurak, and Marica Ivankovic, who represents the Fimi Media agency as a legal person.

Sanader, his former spokesman Macek, the HDZ representative pleaded not guilty. The HDZ defence claims that the slush fund had been set up without the knowledge of the party's bodies.