One of the remaining witnesses to testify in the Fimi Media case, Vedran Mise, on Monday denied a deposition given previously to the national anti corruption office (USKOK) when he said that his former business partner had given money to the accused Ivo Sanader in Salzburg in the late eighties.
Mise was testifying in Zagreb County Court and confirmed that he had travelled to Austria and German with his former business partner Sinisa Caktas to collect photographic material. Previously Mise had told USKOK that Caktas had taken some money to Sanader however in his testimony before the court he said that he didn't know with whom Caktas had met.
He went on to say that he had known Sanader in childhood but that he now knew of him and that he had lived in Austria, only through the media.
Judge Ivana Calic questioned the witness and why his deposition to USKOK differed from his claims in court to which the witness said that he didn't know why he had said that his former partner had met with Sanader, saying that this was so long ago.
The accused objected to the witness's testimony denying that they were friends from childhood as the witness claimed and that he (Sanader) had never lived in Salzburg.
Earlier in the day, Sanader's defence council refrained from questioning former HDZ official Vladimir Seks.
Former prime minister and head of the Croatian Democratic Party (HDZ) Ivo Sanader and his former party are being tried in connection with the Fimi Media marketing agency which, according to the anti-corruption office USKOK, was used to fill a HDZ slush fund.
The trial is to continue on Tuesday.
