4 minutes agoFormer Croatian prime minister, who took Croatia to NATO and liberalised visas, is sentenced to prison
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)“ish-Prime Minister Ivo Sanader will suffer 2 and a half years in prison”. This has been the Croatian Court's decision on the man who led Croatia for six years and was the prime minister of Croatia's NATO membership and visa liberalisation. Despite that, he was punished by the District Court in Zagreb for corruption cases [...]
Despite that, he was punished by the District Court in Zagreb for cases of corruption weighing on him.
Justice ruled that Sanader also must return about half a million euros (5750,000) after the bribe he received in an agreement with Austria's Hypo Bank in the 1990s, profiting 500 thousand euros
He is the highest-ranking official arrested for corruption in Croatia, which he opened to the country “port” for membership in the European Union.
