Zagreb court confirms Mayor Bandic's release

Zagreb, 19 November 2014 (MIA) - A panel of judges on the Zagreb county court confirmed an earlier decision to release Mayor Milan Bandic from custody for a 2-million-euro bail set last week by the same court, the BalkanInsight reported on Wednesday. 

Earlier this month, Bandic offered a house worth around 750,000 euro for his release.

The bail offer of 2 million euro exceeds the figure of 1.6 million euro offered some years ago by Croatia's former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.

As the mayor is offering a mortgage on a house worth 2 million euro, as soon as the mortgage money is transfered to the court, Bandic is free to go.

In accepting the offer, the panel repeated that Bandic must not return to work in the city administration, due to the risk of him influencing witnesses in the investigation, until or unless charges are dropped.

The court also ordered the other suspects in the same case to pay their bail pledges to the court, so that they can be released.

Bandic has already been in custody for over a month now, since the crime-busting special police unit USKOK conducted a mass arrest of the mayor and 16 associates and representatives of private construction companies.

They are accused of corruption, abuse of office, influence peddling and embezzling some 2.6 million euro.

A popular figure, Bandic was mayor of Croatia's biggest city for the last 14 years. He ran in the Croatian presidential elections in 2009, losing to the current President, Ivo Josipovic, in the second round.



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