The Croatian Helsinki Committee on Human Rights (HHO) said on Tuesday it received a letter from former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's wife Mirjana in which she complains about violations of her and her family's human rights, primarily by the media, the authorities and Zagrebacka Banka (ZABA).
Mirjana Sanader says in the letter that she has not been paid the salary she receives via her ZABA account since December 4 and complains about breaches of legal provisions stipulating that the proceedings against her husband should be confidential.
HHO president Ivan Zvonimir Cicak said in a press release he ordered the HHO to check Mrs Sanader's complaints and called a session of the HHO Executive Committee to consider them.
The ex-PM's attorneys said recently that ZABA would not pay his wife her last two salaries following a court order to block the family's accounts.
One of them, Goran Suic, told reporters on Tuesday that ZABA greenlighted the opening of a new account for Mrs Sanader and transferred money into it yesterday.
The Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) is investigating the former PM for abuse of office in a case involving the power company HEP and of conspiracy in a case involving the siphoning of public funds via the Fimi Media marketing agency.
After the investigation was launched, USKOK requested a court-ordered blockade of several bank accounts belonging to Sanader and his immediate family, business premises in Zagreb, and his and his wife's stock in two companies. The family's art collection has temporarily been seized.
Sanader is in custody in Austria, where he was arrested a month ago.
