The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the privatisation of oil company INA has delivered to the State Prosecutor's Office (DORH) tapes of testimonies of six witnesses heard this week, commission chairwoman Dragica Zgrebec said on Friday.
She said the testimonies had been requested by State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic and that the commission delivered them on Thursday.
Zgrebec said Bajic was notified that former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was summoned to testify on October 12 after not being served the first summons.
Spokeswoman Martina Mihordin said the DORH had requested the testimonies in order to take further steps, but would not say which part of the testimonies the DORH was especially interested in.
The media speculate that the DORH will not investigate INA's sale to Hungary's MOL but its tax debt to the state.
When the parliamentary commission asked former INA CEO Tomislav Dragicevic why the company's debt to the state and to suppliers had grown when INA was sold to MOL (by HRK 2 billion and 4 billion, respectively), he said there must have been "a tacit agreement" that instead of paying excise taxes, INA should complete investments that were under way at the time.
"I don't know where that was decided. Something must have been tacitly agreed, because we at the management board didn't make a decision to that effect," Dragicevic said. But the chairman of INA's supervisory board, Finance Minister Ivan Suker, told the commission "there was no political decision to allow INA not to pay excise taxes".
