Former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader no longer has to report to the investigating judge every first Monday of the month, the Zagreb County Court decided on Friday, while the anti-corruption office USKOK announced it would appeal the decision.
However, Sanader is still not allowed to leave Zagreb without the court's permission. In order to be provisionally released from detention last December, he had to surrender his passport and post HRK 12.6 million bail.
Sanader is being tried in two corruption cases, spending four days a week in court.
Mondays and Tuesdays, he is standing trial in the Fimi Media case, in which he is accused of siphoning money from state institutions and companies into a slush fund of his former party, the HDZ.
Thursdays and Friday, he is on trial for war profiteering, i.e. for taking a commission from the Austrian Hypo bank in the mid-1990s, and for taking a EUR 10 million bribe from the Hungarian oil company MOL in exchange for management rights in Croatia's INA.
