Perkovic’s modus operandi
Through several known stories for me I will try to explain kinds of methods of Josip Perkovic, with which he threats to persons he’s taking for enemies and sends them other messages.
In September 1999 in Zagreb in the street and in the afternoon physically attacked me, now deceased, convicted war criminal Munib Suljic, when on his question about what and who I as a journalist appear in media and did I write about Pakracka poljana, I answered that I appeared in talk show Latinica about death treats from Josip Perkovic.
Although I asked for, lawyer of Croatian journalist association, Orhideja Martinovic, also State lawyers’ office following official obligation, did not this attack qualify as the one ordered by Josip Perkovic. Meanwhile I found out that Josip Perkovic was involved in murder of Marina Nuic, the Croat who was murdered in 1991 on Pakracka poljana exactly by Munib Suljic, as a spy of Josip Perkovic. According to my knowledge, Josip Perkovic was blackmailing Munib Suljic with cognitions about Nuic’s murder, and in favour to Perkovic, he was making threats and attacks.
At the end of 1999 after death of Franjo Tudjman from Robert Frank from Rijeka who was attacked in Mostar the same year in spring and his fingers had been broken and till today no attackers were found, I got an information that Tomo Sedlo died, former Croatian political emigrant, who in 1992 publicly testimonied about criminal acts of deceased Minister of defense, Gojko Susak and his war assisstant, former chief of UDBA, Josip Perkovic. Together with lawyer Slobodan Budak who represented me at that time in a process in which I was sued for slander by daughter of deceased President, Nevenka Tudjman, I concluded that the sender of the message was Josip Perkovic, who threatened to Tomo Sedlo in that way that he would be death if he continued to talk in media against him. I talked about that with Tomo Sedlo and he agreed with my and Budak’s evaluation.
After the elections for President on ceremony of proclaiming of Stjepan Mesic appeared also Josip Perkovic and with a kiss congratulated Mesic on his victory.
Tomo Sedlo sold his summer house and continued to live in Frankfurt and he never appeared in media again.
Josip Perkovic’s son, Sasa, who is now in position of President’s counsellor for national security, made progress thanks to his father and President Mesic, first as a assisstant of director of HIS (Croatian Information Service) (OA today [Intelligence agency] joined to POA in SOA). Josip Perkovic directly helped him as a secret counsellor of president of UNS, Tomislav Karamarko (2000-2001) and at the same time counsellor of director of HIS, Damir Loncaric.
The Prime Minister Ivo Sanader replaced Damir Loncaric and Sasa Perkovic in 2004 when he got the notice about their connections with mobbster Hrvoje Petrac.
In order to return his influence through his son on security-intelligence services, Josip Perkovic initiated in Globus through journalist Gordan Malic intelligence affair Presentation of POA about cooperation of journalists with Haag’s investigators and agents of MI-6.
Malic paid special attention to the fact that in documents of POA about cooperation of journalist Malic with Haag’s investigators Vera and Looms there were mentioned names of Josip and Sasa Perkovic.
Gordan Malic personaly praised to me that he had in preparation more secret documents with which he would break up the government of Ivo Sanader.
In order to hide his responsibility for dealing with secret documents, Josip Perkovic through Perica Juric, (1990/1991 deputy of Minister of police and formaly superior officer to Perkovic) was spreading the story that he had been kidnapped recently by some men under masks and took away from him a part of secret documentation out of hidden archive.
I got that information from X. Y. who heard it from Perica Juric. Mister Y. after conversation with me got the confession from Perica Juric that Josip Perkovic tricked him.
Epilogue of the affaire Presentation was urgent appointment of Sasa Perkovic for counsellor of President of Republic. General lawyer’s office did not accept my request for compensation of the damage because my name was on the list of journalists whom POA accused as enemies of Croatia, so I was forced to sue the State and ask for material compensation. No one of the journalists who were accused by POA didn’t sue the state, by which it can be concluded that the main goal of launching the affaire was achieved by appointment of Sasa Perkovic at President Mesic’s.
Last year in autumn President Stjepan Mesic for the second time of raising the indictment in Germany publicly stood in protection of Josip Perkovic. On the news of indictment he said that our judicature doesn’t deliver Croatian citizens to judicature of other countries and that Perkovic is a great professional who helped Croatia. Now he said that German indictment against Perkovic in fact attack on his son Sasa, that is on the President himself, Stjepan Mesic. He repeated that Perkovic is a great professional.
After that statement I got a phone call from Germany from mister Josip Majerski who during the 80-ties of last century testimonied in German media that he escaped from SDS (UDBA) and that from Josip Perkovic and other chiefs of UDBA he had got orders for liquidations. Majerski in 1988 appeared in Scotland as witness of accusation against Vinko Sindicic that he shot Croatian emigrant Nikola Stedul. Majerski was key witness who confirmed that Sindicic by order of Croatian SDS (UDBA) shot Stedul.
Now Majerski ask me is it true that Nikola Stedul died as he heared in Germany.
About that I informed mister X. Y. who called Stedul. Stedul was surprised and also got scared. Although he lives in Croatia and he is known as public opponent of Josip Perkovic, besides he and his men ( Mirko Norac, Tihomir Oreskovic, Nikola Kristo, Antonio Lekic, Mihael Budimir, Tvrtko Pasalic) were closely cooperating with Josip Perkovic in 1991/1992 (death of Miro Baresic, war crime in Gospic, war port Lora in Split, Derventa in Bosnian Posavina), Nikola Stedul for several years did not appeared in Croatian media.
Similar as in countries of former Communist block: Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia…, also in Croatia certain structures of Communist secret police survived transition and today also have significant power in society. In Croatia it grew stronger through the war because people like Josip Perkovic, who was the latest chief of Communist secret police in Croatia, got opportunity to through crimes in war hide or mist up participation in crimes during the Communism.
