Posts Tagged ‘SOA’

Who does SOA blog?!

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Who does SOA blog?!

Now that I have seen what the CNN blog released, I have gone through the blog more carefully and come across some other, allegedly Agencys posts:

-eljko, what kind of intelligence underground are you talking about? When you write all sorts of nonsense and misinformation, then it is called professional journalism. When someone is critical and asks you for anything concerning your work as a journalist, then you say how that is exclusively to the order and in the production of the intelligence underground. Didnt Franjo Turek use the same terminology? Didnt he name certain Croatian journalists intelligence underground? It seems that you have yet another point of reference.

As far as my assertion (indicating you and (let me use your jargon) Daddy Manolić operating together) is concerned, it seems you havent overworked yourself to deny that. The fact is you cant deny it because one just has to read your texts and comments.

Now that you have forced me to speak, I will point to one more specualtion that is being talked about in Gospić and Rijeka. The story says that, at some time, you used to inform some unsavory characters on late Levars movement (the same Levar you feel so protective about now and about whom you have already written War and peace on your Internet pages). Naturally, you will say again that it is a classic example of intelligence undergorund set-up (30/1/2007; 21:20)

- for Kreo Bilan: If you agree with “eljkos information”, then why havent you brought chargesespecially since, as you have indicated yourself, the mechanisms of the rule of law dont function? As far as my anonymity is concerned, it is my discretional right. If writers can publish books using false names and pen names, then we can contribute our comments in the same way. 31/1/2007, (14:17)

“aleluja” in comments on post “Spies rushed on to blog” on 45 lines



I have been repeatedly warning the public and authorities that the SOA director Tomislav Karamarko was obstructing Milan Levars murder investigation. Then, in order to turn attention from the topic, the Agency accused me of snitching Levar to unsavory characters. What is it: protection of national interests or protection of killers?!

-Peratović, or I should call you AGENT “PUNIA” (the spy name Turek gave you), how much does your integrity cost? Is it HRK1, 000 a month plus bonus per every quality information? Still, the price is irrelevant- what matters is integrity.

Tell me, will you be able to look ĐURĐA ADLEIĆ square in the eye since you told Turek that her lover was SIS member Josip Trogrlić. Moreover, you said that she was so much in love with him that she told him the most confidential information she knew as (then) the chief of the parliamentary Board for national security?

Greetings to aleluja, he is on a good track, let him just keep digging on hypocrite eljko Peratović!


“Kriar”, 1/2/2007, 08:08, in comment on post “Soa case of Nenada Vukman, member of the Council for the civil supervision of secret services”

Hm, you should remember what Mesić-Karamarkos Nacional published after my arrest:

BLOGGER PUNIA BROUGHT IN FOR QUESTIONING

eljko Peratović started and ended his journalists career in Vjesnik. He also wrote for a number of newspapers, including Nacional where he worked shortly. Some secret services considered him their associate while his code name in POA records was ‘Punia’


Berislav Jelinić, Nacional, 22/10/007.

Who briefed “Nacional” on how to discredit me? Was it the Agency or Berislav Jelinić, a journalist, who came across this information while surfing the Internet and believed it to be true although it came from an anonymous commentator?

Those were the attempts to discredit me followed by “lujka“s provocative comment:

@45.- here is the precise information. Josip Buljević has been touring South America for 2 weeks now. He spent most of the time in the Croatian Embassy in Buenos Aires where the scandal, similar to the one in Portugal, broke. The Embassys employees have reported how Buljević introduced the reign of terror, verbally abused them, and even suggested the polygraph testing for the ambassador’s bodyguard. At the same time, he was frequently seen dining with Rojnicas closest relatives and friends!

“lujka”, 29/04/2007, (16:46), comment on post “Tomislav Karamarko and Tihomir Oresković

- for comment: read H.L. from the first half of the last year (Perković is on the front cover). The article is under the headline “I didnt order immigrants killings”, signed by Tomislav Drić. The attempt was to grant amnesty to-free Perković from any responsibility for mass killings of Croats that took place abroad. Those killings were planned and helped by the State security service which was, for many years, run by the above mentioned Josip Perković.
This article is interesting for the reason that it was signed by Tomislav Drić who was Perkovićs associate in Zagreb..
eljko has also mentioned Maks Manfreda, UDBA member, who testified in the court when Sindičić was tried for murdering Bruno Buić. However, he didnt mention professor of TIPSS and Marxism, a former police officer, who used to fuss about Bruno and send reports on him to the Split UDBA. What a coincidence! He also writes for H.L. that ran the article with the reconstruction of associates net from the professionals (J.P.s) memory. Do you know whose name was deleted from that associates list in H.L.? The name of Ante Ivković from “Vjesnik”, Marijačićs journalists mentor and protector, who was also SDS and KOS associate.

As far as Ivan Bandić is concerned, you should look into who is behind him, who gave him the permission for an interview in Globus one year ago (here I dont refer to J.P.). Those people, more than anyone, are against any kind of lustration.

“lujka”, 11/04/2007,21:37, comment on post “Mark Cigoj defending Ivan Bandić



To sum up, they wanted to discredit me by ingratiating themselves with me and denouncing colleagues from “Hrvatski list”, about whom, except Tomislav Jelić, I dont have some positive opinion.
With regards to these provocative acts, I hove come into possession of some other evidence which I will not disclose for the time being.


As far as “Antimon”, reported by CNN to be one of Agencys nicks, is concerned, I couldnt find his posts. However, I presume that we are probably talking about hate speech aimed at Bosniaks (mentioning terms such as “balija” and “bastards”, disparaging Karamarkos wife Enisas family and insulting eljko Malnar, co-founder of Karamarkos company “Soboli” etc.), in comments on post “Bosniaks quota in SOA”. I deleted those comments after being warned by Nemanja alias Kapetan Kuka that, in the name of freedom of speech, I mustnt allow hate speech

I think that Ostojićs parliamentary board and its Council will be rather busy. Heres to them! If these posts turn out to be, and they can be checked by tracing logs, Agencys posts, then those are the offences for which SOA chief, Tomislav Karamarko, as well as the general state attorney Mladen Bajić, who allegedly approved of such activities, will have to be accountable for.
They will not pass Euro-Atlantic integrations “lustration” and that is why I am the obstacle or State enemy no. 1 – in approaching the integrations.

peratovic rsf

45 lines, 5 March 2008, Wednesday

Karadić and Karamarko

Sunday, January 11th, 2009


Karadić and Karamarko

Croatian secret services have one more additional argument when claiming that they did not know where Ante Gotovina was when he was searched for by the Hague court and when that was the reason why the European Union was blocking negotiations with Croatia. Now, I can say it openly: we did not even know that Radovan Karadić was spending his time in Čiovo and you can trust us when we say that we would want to catch him!


Who knows whether one should be completely confident of that? Croatian and Serbian leaders were involved in trading all sorts of things in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Radovan Karadić, together with Ivica Rajić, could have been protected by someone from the Croatian secret services while he was soaking himself in the Croatian Adriatic Sea.


The fact that Radovan Karadić was entering and leaving Croatia whenever he wanted, that he was preparing to go back to Split where he could witness Sanader’s famous rally to save Mirko Norac or some of the Pope’s visits to Dalmatia, is evidence of what sorts of secret services, paid from our taxes, we have.

It is scary if they did know that and even worse if they were entirely unaware of that fact. At that time they were rather busy and had their priorities such as following, prosecuting, intimidating and harassing journalists. Detention of eljko Peratović, confiscation of his work tools, obstruction of employment opportunities; blackmailing Helena Puljiz; breathing down Drago Hedls neck and intimidating him with the data collected by wiretapping Feral; stalking Pavelić, Đikić, Malić, Čičak and Butković -stalking them but not Karadić.

It has been 53 days that somebody beat up and tried to kill journalist Duko Milju. It is futile to expect those agencies to help the police not to find a person who did that to Duko Milju, but the person who ordered that the person who is evidently involved in subversive activities against the constitutional order in Croatia. Similarly, we have been waiting for 2884 days for them to say, not who murdered the Hague witness Milan Levar ( because they know that but the evidence do not find their way to the court), but again, who ordered it. Those would be the pieces of information for which they are paid. Instead of that, those agencies prosecute the information for which you pay.

Inoslav Besker photo

Inoslav Beker RIMOVANJE , Jutarnji.hr, 25 July 2008,

Legal lack of rights more dangerous than the illegal one

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Legal lack of rights more dangerous than the illegal one

The situation is much more dangerous than I anticipated: some entirely impermissible actions in Croatia are not illegal but completely legal.

Violation of human and professional rights caused by the breach of law is definitely dangerous. However, the system has in-built mechanisms that are used to resist that and prosecute perpetrators. Violation of human and professional rights that is in accordance with the law is much more dangerous since it is an indicator that the system has in-built mechanisms that are favourable to such behaviour. It is similar to Stalin’s Soviet Union which had one of the most liberal constitutions in the world but, according to it, it was not illegal to put people, mostly communists, into concentration camps nor was it against the law to lock people up, primarily smarter ones, in mental hospitals.

Peratović case: Council for Civil Supervision of Security Intelligence agencies held the opinion that, pursuant to Article 113 of the Act on Security and Intelligence system of the Republic of Croatia, it is entirely legal to detain and harass a citizen who is in this case a journalist. It is also legal to seize his work tools, such as computers with saved archives, and keep them for a longer period, suspect him of revealing state and military secrets without any foundation, and, in accordance with the above mentioned, it is utterly unfounded to doubt that his basic human and professional rights were violated by the above described procedures. Consequently, working independently and keeping your own archive and using it in Croatia is not regarded as basic human and professional rights if civil servants do not like what you do or how you do it.

Violation of human and professional rights that is in accordance with the law is very dangerous since it is an indicator that the system has in-built mechanisms that are favourable to such a behaviour

The matter in case is the petition of eljko Peratović, an investigative journalist, which he submitted to the Council for Civil Supervision of Security Intelligence agencies and the parliamentary Board for Internal Politics and National Security. In the petition, he asked for the protection of his human and professional rights. However, the petition, as we have seen, was rejected.

As Freedom House reported, Peratović’s detention, together with breaking into Gordan Malić’s apartment and death threats directed at Robert Valdec, was mentioned as the reason why Croatia was placed at the 78th place of the world chart of media freedom. It should be also mentioned that the Croatian journalists’ association supported its member’s petition. The HND say that from the alleged SOA document which was released follows that the SOA was incriminating Peratović for his writing.

eljko Peratović was professionally investigating the murder of Milan Levar, a witness to war crimes, and the obstruction of the investigation of Levar’s murderers for which he suspected the members of security-intelligence system.

Moreover, the non-denied analysis conducted by the SOA which dealt with Peratović’s work was released and it confirmed that the SOA “was decreasing damage” by infiltrating into the media space, making comments on blogs and other Internet pages.

Naturally, it would not be for the first time that some state secret service was spreading (mis)information – it is also happening in Italy where the military espionage had a special department whose purpose was to misinform and slander but that certainly is not the purpose for which citizens finance the service. In a decent world, it would be a shame and not the reason for earning salary and deserving a medal.

Pukanić case: The police, its internal control and one parliamentary board found that there was nothing illegal in preventing a citizen from informing journalists about something by using force, including handcuffs. The same citizen was then taken to a psychiatric hospital, where she does not belong in terms of the place of residence. The usual doctor’s procedure or any medical basis (as it was established by the follow-up specialist check-up) were lacking. The citizen was kept there under coercion for days.

This is naturally the case of Mirjana Pukanić.

The question is what her destiny would be like if the Croatian Helsinki Committee, a non-government organization, did not get involved. Unlike it, state authorities, as we have heard, were acting in accordance with the law.

The freedom of media is naturally the main goal of those legal but impermissible procedures but it is not the main victim. What is more endangered is civil freedom itself. If we are to believe the authorities that say that the law in Croatia enables and justifies pressures and threats to freedom that eljko Peratović and Mirjana Pukanić suffered then it means that any of you, ladies and gentlemen, who voted for those who passed such laws and who pay taxes in order to finance all of that, can legally find himself in the same situation.

Inoslav Besker photo

Inoslav Beker, RIMOVANJE, Jutarnji.hr, 14 May 2008

Karamarko, protector of this and that

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Karamarko sues journalist Peratović for accusations of protecting his friends killers

Karamarko against Peratovic

Tomislav Karamarko, the Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs, filed a suit against two independent Internet journalists- eljko Peratović and Domagoj Margetić. According to Veljko Miljević, Karamarko’s lawyer, the suit was filed for spreading disturbing and false contents.

Karamarko filed his first suit at the Municipal Criminal Court in June when he was the head of the Security Intelligence Agency. Yet, the General Attorney’s Office considered that at that moment there were no grounds for criminal prosecution. At the beginning of December, his lawyer made an addition to the suit and put everything into motion once again. Miljević explains that he did not want to file a private suit against Peratović (authorities will prosecute him, authors comment) because it is not only Karamarko whose dignity has been damaged but people close to him as well since he fills the post of minister at the moment.

“Karamarko, protector of this and that”

When asked to name at least two examples explaining why Karamarko decided to insist upon the suit, despite the atmosphere caused by the police prosecution of a Facebooker, Miljević says:

”As a man, Karamarko feels most hurt by Peratović claiming that he has covered up Milan Levar’s murderer. He says that his daughter asked him one day what murderers he was protecting, says Miljević. Secondly, there are all sorts of articles on his blog – ‘Stjepan Mesić, the President of the Republic, this’, ‘State General Attorney Mladen Bajić that’, ‘the head of SOA, Tomislav Karamarko, protector of this and that’, enumerates Miljević.

He also added that it was not only the question of the Internet but he repeated the same on television, radio and printed media. Moreover, he claimed that Karamarko would not insist on the suit if the articles were not on the Internet for a longer period of time.

For heaven’s sake, who killed Milan Levar?

Milan Levar was Peratović’s friend and the witness to war crimes in Gospić. He was also involved in the investigation regarding “Medački dep ‘93″, about which he was supposed to testify in The Hague. Levar claimed that Croatian secret service agencies had the right data and evidence of crimes. Levar pointed to general Mirko Norac and Tihomir Oreković, the secretary of the Lika Crisis Headquarters, as the chief suspects.

Margetic and Miljevic

Domagoj Margetić and Karamarko’s lawyer Veljko Miljević

They were convicted but lead an easy life in prison every now and then, Oreković’s serve time is suspended, while Norac managed to meet the love of his life, conceive a child and get married at the same time while serving a sentence for the killings of Serbs. Following Levar’s murder in 2000, media reported how Josip Manolić, who coordinated the work of Croatian secret service agencies at the time of those unfortunate events in Gospić, when asked to say who killed Levar, answered:

“Well, those he named war criminals! At least, that is clear!”

Thus, a former secret agent indirectly pointed to this duo. It is important to mention that Karamarko is not the only (now former, authors comment) head of the intelligence agency that Peratović has been in conflict with since his friend was murdered.

Secret service raided “paranoid” Peratović’s apartment

Murderers have remained unknown until today. For years, Peratović has been unable to find a job in proper media because, in journalists’ circles, he is perceived as a paranoiac obsessed by secret services. He was not present in the media until he was arrested for revealing a military secret on the blog. His entire documentation and all computers in the apartment were seized.

The search was requested on the basis of notes from the Security Intelligence Agency (SOA) official letter, the office of the director Tomislav Karamarko from 17 September 2007. The search warrant, as said in the statement of reasons, was issued at the request of the Zagreb Police Department dated 16 October this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs notes from 7 February, computer excerpts from Peratović’s blog.

Ana Benačić, Index.hr, 15.12.2008

Karamarko suit against Peratovic

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

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Olivier Basille, Chief Representative RSF to the EU and eljko Peratović, Paris, 23. 12. 2008

CHANGE IN STRUCTURE

Minister: Police Shook After Each Elections

Of course that the minister and state secretaries are submissive to politics, but there must not be tectonic disturbances.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – The Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs Tomislav Karamarko stated that next year they will continue to depoliticise and professionalise the police. They will do this in order to stop the bad work of the politics and circumstances that occur leading up to each elections, and after because of possible changes, half of the police structure shakes.

Of course the ministers and state secretaries are submissive to politics, but the professional core must protect itself, and there cannot be tectonic disturbances said Karamarko in an interview for Croatian Radio.

According to his opinion, the influence of politics was seen at the middle and lower levels, where the local government tried to influence the police system. He evaluated that there is no longer problems in cooperation between the SOA (Security Intelligence Agency) and MUP (Ministry of Internal Affairs), and that whilst he was at the head of SOA they regularly supplied the police with information, and in his opinion, the problem was inside MUP.

He voiced his content with MUPs budget for next year, even though, he said, because of the economic situation some projects like new uniforms and improving the status of police officers, will have to wait for other times.

Dramatic year

He claims that the past year was dramatic because of the serious crimes that disturbed the citizens, like the murder of Ivo Pukanic and Ivana Hodak, after whose liquidation he was named minister. He considers that the police will solve the murder of that young apprentice lawyer.

The processing is going in the right direction, but it hard to say if it will end in one week, month or longer he said. He added that he expects that some older mafia murders will be solved.

Just like his recent interview for the press, he did not want to reveal the role of the Croatian intelligence agencies in locating the Hague suspect, general Ante Gotovina. He said that it would be unprofessional from his side.

Operation Shock and suit against Peratovic

He described the recent operation Shock, in which a number of people were arrested and then released in Zagreb who were linked to organized crime for years, as a proactive and preventive operation.

The operation is new in many ways. We want the police to prevent events, and not the run after them he said.

In the end, Karamarko explained that he filed the private suit against two bloggers, Zeljko Peratovic and Domagoj Margetic, in order to protect his dignity from, according to his evaluation, allegations without arguments on his account. The allegations were, for example, that he obstructed the investigation into the murder of the Hague witness Milan Levar in Gospic.

If they have the right to publish things that no normal citizen would tolerate, then I have the right to file a citizen law suit against them, says Karamarko.

HINA, translated by Joseph Stedul, Javno.com, December 22, 2008

Tender for Croatian secret agents

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

It has been speculated for some time that, in case of the SDP winning the elections, a new SOA chief should become piro Mie, the confidant of Ranko Ostojić a candidate for the minister of the interior. Recently, I have been warned by more sources that Ante Glavan, the head of a SOA sector, has more prospects of becoming the SDP chief of SOA than piro Mie.

- Glavan, using the data on Mesić acquired during the Puljiz case, has built a strong relationship with Pantovčak. It is also known that the SOA chief cannot be appointed without the President’s counter-signature. What is more interesting is the fact that Glavan, through the mediation of Ante Damjanović, has contacted Ante Kotromanović. He seems to have more influence on the SDP president, Zoran Milanović, than Ranko Ostojić, warns one of the sources close to the parliamentary Committee for National Security.

Ante Damjanović, who has allegedly put Kotromanović in touch with Glavan, is Tihomir Blakić’s godfather. On the other hand, Blakić is on close terms with Ivan Račan, the late SDP president’s son. In the 90s Ante Damjanović was a SIS analyst and at some time past, he was arrested by SIS under the suspicion of removing military documents without authorization. He intended to hand them over to Blakić’s lawyer Nobilo without authorization. In 2000, when the coalition won the elections, Damjanović, as a HSLS member, became a security adviser to Jozo Rado, the minister of defence.

Besides that, in 2000, the afore mentioned military policemen, together with the retired SIS officer from ibenik, Stipe Jukić, were received by Mladen Ruman, assistant minister of defence for security, Davor Bićan, head of SIS, and Ante Damjanović, defence minister security adviser. The latter was made well-known by Jasna Babić in her book Blakić conspiracy where he was described as Tihomir Blakić’s best man.

It is interesting that at that time Milković and Bariić were SDP members but were summoned to the meeting in MORH via HSLS connections, since then minister, Jozo Rado, was HSLS vice-president. The meeting was organized by Ante Damjanović who was a subordinate to the head of SIS, Stipe Rojnica, at the time when the assistant minister of defence for security was Draen Budia’s best man, Dr Goran Dodig.

Longtime champions of truth, Milković, Jukić and Bariić, were sent off from MORH with the promise that their findings would be seen to seriously. As the time was passing by and no one was approaching or acting, I was asked to talk to Ante Damjanović and check where it all got stalled.

I met Ante Damjanović for a cup of coffee in the Palace hotel bar. There, I found out that Rado’s security adviser would rather I had showed interest in the Tihomir Blakić, his best man, case and pilgrimages for Blakić from the Hague to Nova Bila that he had organized, than being interested in the case of military policemen and SIS officers against whom charges for war criminals and crime were pressed. He was puzzled about why Mario Bariić needed all of that and what his motives were and which school Bariić graduated from.

45 lines, 13.09.2005.

Ante Damjanović and Ante Glavan got together during the investigation of a crime in Paulin Dvor:

However, the entire operation of transporting bodies in white plastic barrels (10060 cm), with the logo of the Osijek company “Analit” was overseen by SIS. The bodies were found in three graves in Rizvanua, in February 2002. The operation was secured by the Military Police, notably its Crime division. Thus, the investigation of the crime, whose trails were attempted to be covered up 500 km away, was pointing to colonel Ante Gugić, then the head of SIS, general Mate Lauić, a long-time Military Police commander, and major Ante Glavan. The latter was the head of the Military Police Crime division for a number of years and during the operation in question as well. More and more data indicate that Ante Gugić, Ante Glavan and head of Operative division of SIS, major eljko Sklepić, may have a lot to say about crimes committed in Paulin Dvor, war crimes committed by HV members, particularly Military Police members in the regions of Sisak and Gospić and in the Split Naval Base Lora. There are also indications that the leading members of SIS and the Military Police crime division, Gugić, Glavan and Sklepić in person, as key figures from the HDZ intelligence infrastructure, were directly involved in covering up those war crimes. Though a Military Security agency was founded, the Military Police crime division, by orders of Mladen Ruman, became the intelligence-security-police organ of the Ministry of Defence.

Nacional, 18.09.2002.

Current SOA director, Tomislav Karamarko, has continued with the reconstruction of the mega spy agency. He reckons that, when HDZ wins the elections again, he will, as the minister of interior, be able to do whatever he wants with SOA via his people. Karamarko has been preparing his assistant Josip Buljević to take over. Buljević won recognition when tracking down Ante Gotovina and Hrvoje Petrač. Buljević is often approved business trips to the USA, where, allegedly, pays private visits to Jelena Vre, a SOA accredited representative in Washington. He enjoys specific privileges such as installing hand controls in the business Audi although he is not an invalid without legs. The price of that privilege expressed in euros is equivalent to the price of another car.

On Buljević’s request Karamarko appointed Tomislav Milčić as his chief of staff. He is a former POA agent who was supposed to testify in the German process against Krunoslav Prates.

A recent Zagreb SOA Centre chief and Mirko Norac’s friend Milijan Brkić was promoted to the position of SOA home security chief by Karamarko.

Recently, SOA has received general Mladen Markač defense team’s request concerning the appearance of two agency’s employees (Ante Letica and Svibor Kikerec) at the Hague trial as expert witnesses so as to confirm the authenticity of some HIS documents on “Oluja”. Sources close to ICTY assume that the request was dictated by Miroslav eparović, a lawyer who was forbidden by the Hague to represent Markač due to the conflict of interests. eparović was also the head of HIS and knows who did what in that agency.

Karamarko refused the request for Ante Letica’s expert testimony in the Hague because admiral Sveto Letica’s son is currently a coordinator of all SOA centres’ activities. Another reason is the fact that he is the spy loyal to Josip Perković, alpha and omega of all Croatian spies. Ante Letica began his spy career in the 80s in the Split UDBA where his superiors were Ladislav Pivčević, current chief of the Council for National Security office and Stipe Perković, Josip Perković’s retired brother

He was serving in Zagreb when there was the change of power. Zagreb SZUP operatives arrested him in Zrinjevac in 1991 when he removed certain UDBA documents from the SZUP headquarters without authorization. It was his intention to hand them over to Branko Traivuk, one of KOS “Labradors”. Darko Starčević and Darko Domiljanović, who were managing the operation of catching “Labradors” on behalf of SZUP, were disappointed when Ante Letica, owing to Josip Perković, uak’s main SIS operative, was freed and immediately employed in MUP.

Just after that, according to Dobroslav Paraga, Ante Letica, on behalf of MUP, had sent the communication saying that the HSP vice-president died. It was an hour before the assassination of Ante Paradik. It perfectly fits into a testimony claiming that Josip Perković, Zoran Udiljak and Kreo Bralić, fully equipped, had left SIS half an hour prior to Paradik’s murder and drove off to the future crime site. Individuals, who are willing to give their testimonies about that to the state prosecution as soon as Mladen Bajić and Dragan Novosel are removed from the office, say there is no doubt that Perković and Letica acted in co-ordination in the Paradik case. However, Letica, due to his proved cowardice and fear, released the communication “that the Paradik case is put ad acta” too early.

In order for Letica, who is not known to be a particularly bright spy, not to discredit himself in the Hague, Karamarko decided that Svibor Kikerec should give the testimony to the Hague prosecutors. He was a former assistant in HIS, accredited OA representative in Moscow while today, he is Boo Kovačević deputy minister, in the rank of a minister counsellor.

Karamarko does not care that in he jeopardizes the functioning of the Croatian diplomacy, especially in such a sensitive place as Russia. What matters is Letica not compromising his firm and the spy Daddy Josip Perković. Moreover, Karamarko does not know anything about international rules of the spy profession. That is how he removed an employee from an office of the head of the SOA sector for co-operation with foreign services. The employee expressed negatively about the fact that SOA passed certain confidential information it got from the French service to the Russian service, despite the international spy rule Third party which forbids sending obtained information to the third parties. Due to insisting on respecting international norms, the chief of co-on was transferred to a less important and significantly less paid position in the Zagreb SOA Centre.

Karamarko also organized a special department for the protection of the director, consisting of 15 men. For their chief, he appointed certain 45-year-old-built-up-with-grey-hair Samir Ćuskić. It would be no wonder if he turns out to belong to the Zijad Mahmuljin Udovičić numbed team. The latter has been employed in SOA by Karamarko to work on our elite spies’ special skills.

Let me paraphrase comrade Tito: We needn’t worry for the future of Croatia with such spies!

P.S. This post published at 13 September, 2007, Thursday on peratovic.blog.hr – Sveta tri Ante uz SDP-ove jaslice

That article was cited by the secret service as the evidence against me. I have been incriminated by an accusation that I was jeopardizing the safety of SOA employees by making their names and positions known and that I was jeopardizing the national security and the Croatian accession to the NATO and EU”. Consequently, I was arrested by the police on October 17, 2007. That is nothing but a doubt used to divert attention from the fact that I only mentioned the SOA employees identity in the context of articles on nepotism and corruption in the process of reorganization of the security-intelligence system and the personnel policy of Tomislav Karamarko, the SOA director.

We support eljko Peratović petition

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Croatian Journalists Association – News

Croatian Journalists Association press release, March 17, 2008-03-18

We support eljko Peratović petition

The Croatian Journalists Association supports its member eljko Peratović, a freelance journalist and blogger, petition he has sent to the Council for Civil Supervision of Security-Intelligence Agencies and the Croatian Parliaments Committee for Internal Politics and National Security, asking them to protect his human and professional rights and freedoms. These days, an alleged SOA document has been published. If the document is authentic, it follows that the SOA has been incriminating eljko Peratović for his writing. Besides that, another implication is that the SOA has been intervening on blogs using its own comments and enquiring about the identity of those commenting blogs. We appeal to the Council for Civil Supervision of Security-Intelligence Agencies and the Croatian Parliaments Committee to look into the authenticity of the aforementioned document and protect Peratovićs human and professional rights.

Zdenko Duka, president

La Croatie diverse sur 45 Lines

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Nabucho, merci beaucoup ;)

18.10.2007

Zeljko Peratovic

Un journaliste vient d’tre arrt en Croatie.

Voici l’information que j’ai trouv ce matin (18-10-07) sur le site du “Jutarnji list”.

Peratovic a t arrt pour avoir rvl un secret officiel

Zagreb – L’ancien journaliste du Vjesnik, et actuellement jounaliste indpendant, Zeljko Peratovic, a t arrt hier Zagreb pour tre souponn d’avoir rvl un secret officiel – a confirm le MUP.*

Pour l’instant, il n’est pas trs clair de quel secret il s’agit. Mardi, la police avait demand et obtenu auprs du Tribunal de grande instance un ordre secret pour fouiller l’appartement de Peratovic. Depuis ils l’ont amen un entretien criminel et ce faisant son ordinateur personnel a t confisqu.

Plus tard dans l’aprs-midi, il a t confirm de la part de la police que Peratovic a t formellement arrt, mais sans qu’il y ait eu d’informations officielles sur les raisons de son arrestation. On a fait savoir qu’aprs son entretien criminel il a t accompagn au Centre d’investigation du tribunal de grande instance Zagreb.

Peratovic a publi une grande partie de ses textes sur son propre blog. Il y a crit entre autre au sujet de Fatima Skula**, une femme tmoin sur les crimes de guerre dans la rgion de Gospic, qui avait parl dans ce contexte du vice-prsident du Parlement, Darko Milinovic. Sur son blog, il s’tait galement trs souvent rfr de faon critique aux services secrets croates.

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* MUP (Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova) : le Ministre de l’intrieur

** La prochaine note sera consacre l’affaire Fatima Skula

18.10.2007

Fatima Skula

Fatima Skula est une femme ayant port des accusations de crimes de guerre avant de se rtracter.

Voici un article qui avait t publi il y a quelques jours sur le site “net.hr” propos de cette affaire.

Fatima Skula, la secrtaire de Tihomir Oreskovic, le chef du Quartier gnral Gospic en 1991, affirme avoir donn sous le chantage et la menace de liquidation la dclaration ayant t divulgue sur You Tube.

S’agissant de l’information divulgue sur le site o elle affirme que Darko Milinovic, l’actuel prsident du Parlement, l’poque mdecin Gospic, avait amen dans un vhicule sanitaire les victimes de crimes de guerre*, elle a dclar qu’elle avait t force de donner une telle dclaration.

Sur You Tube est divulgu un film dans lequel elle accuse Milinovic pour les crimes Gospic, et l’auteur affirme qu’il s’agit du tmoignage de Fatima Skula, l’ancienne secrtaire de Tihomir Oreskovic, le chef du quartier gnral Gospic qui a t condamn 15 annes de prison pour crimes de guerre.

Je rfute fermement la dclaration que Milinovic aurait soi-disant transport les victimes de crimes de guerre, car elle a t donne sous la contrainte et la menace d’limination physique de moi et de mes enfants”, a dclar Skula aux journalistes Gospic.

Des hommes inconnus en tenue de camouflage taient venus chez moi, m’avaient emmene dans une direction inconnue dans une maison prive et m’avaient force donner cette dclaration, et ils m’avaient dit ce que je dois raconter”, a dclar Skula sans prciser quand cela s’tait pass.

“Ce n’est pas une histoire de ma tte, c’est une histoire des cerveaux d’autrui. Je suis venue dire que dans toute l’histoire il n’y a pas de vrit, je m’excuse non seulement envers le Dr Milinovic, mais aussi envers les autres qui sont mentionns dans cette histoire fabrique”, a dclar Skula.

Elle a ajout avoir t scandalise lorsqu’elle a reu un appel d’un parti politique (qu’elle n’a pas rvl) sur l’offre d’une protection personnelle, tant donn, comme elle a dit, qu’elle croit en l’tat croate.

Je crois que je suis protge et qu’aucun danger ne me menace, a dclar Skula en refusant de rpondre aux questions des journalistes.

Le vice-prsident du Parlement, Milinovic, qui se trouvait Gospic au vernissage de l’expostion “L’Automne dans la Lika”, a dclar aux journalistes qu’il avait vu pour la dernire fois Fatima Skula en 1998, lorsqu’il l’avait fait accoucher de sa fille.

Il n’avait jamais plus rencontr Fatima depuis lors, pas mme en 2004, lorsqu’on avait essay, a-t-il dit, “de le placer dans le contexte de criminel de guerre”.

Les accusations sur le compte de Milinovic avaient t publies dans le Feral en 2004.

Comme il l’a dclar Gospic, cette histoire est nouveau lance au moment de la campagne lectorale.

“Je veux dire aujourd’hui que je suis fier, et il me semble que je l’ai fait, d’avoir sauv la vie de madame Fatima Skula et de ses enfants, puisque des hommes en uniforme avaient voulu menacer sa vie”, a dclar Milinovic.

Il a demand au Parquet que soit enfin clairci l’assassinat de Milan Levar**, car “Dieu soit lou que durant ces quatre ans ne soit arriv quelque chose Fatima Skula, depuis que le titre dans le Feral a t publi ce propos, probablement Darko Milinovic aurait-il t celui qui a incit de tels actes”.

Il a ajout qu’il est galement fier de son rle dans la Guerre patriotique, tandis que ceux qui aujourd’hui s’occupent d’activits aussi dtestables, aujourd’hui ne dorment pas en paix, a conclu Darko Milinovic la confrence pour les journalistes Gospic.

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* Inutile de dire qu’ils avaient t amens vers une destination secrte.

** Milan Levar est un croate de la ville de Gospic qui avait rvl en 1998 aux enquteurs du TPIY des crimes commis par des soldats croates sur des civils serbes Gospic en 1991. Il tait considr comme un tmoin potentiel de l’accusation. Il avait galement ensuite donn des interviews la presse croate o il portait des accusations contre les gnraux de l’arme croate Mirko Norac et Tihomir Oreskovic, ainsi que contre des politiciens de haut rang qu’il accusait d’avoir couvert les exactions. Milan Levar a t tu dans un attentat la bombe sur sa voiture dans sa ville natale de Gospic en aot 2002. Aucune poursuite n’a t lance dans cette affaire.

Zeljko Peratovic (2)

Le journaliste dont je vous parlais hier a t relch.

Reporters sans frontires a condamn son arrestation. Je vous livre une partie de leur communiqu trouv sur internet, celle qui prsente ce journaliste.

Mais avant cela je signale un dtail prvisible mais qui a son importance, savoir que ds aujourd’hui la presse croate ne s’intresse plus cette affaire.

Le journaliste a notamment travaill pour diffrents quotidiens dont le dernier en date est Vjesnik. Ses enqutes sur les crimes de guerre lui ont valu de graves difficults. Il a perdu son emploi, a t agress et il est considr comme un tratre par une partie de la population qui refuse l’ide mme que des crimes aient pu tre commis par des Croates pendant la guerre.

En 2003, il a reu le prix de la libert de la presse de la section autrichienne de Reporters sans frontires. En 2005, il avait contact l’organisation pour lui faire part de la surveillance renforce dont il faisait l’objet.

19.10.2007

Zeljko Peratovic (3)

Un article paru hier sur le site du “dnevnik.hr”. A ce moment, Peratovic avait dj t relch.

Peratovic au Thme du jour de Nova TV a affirm que la police avait confisqu les documents qu’il avait rassembls pendant 15 annes et qu’il avaient publis dans les journaux o il a travaill.

Il ne croit pas que les documents qui ont t effacs de son blog sur Blog.hr sont la vraie raison des poursuites politiques. “Ces documents sur le blog s’y trouvent depuis six mois dj. Ils avaient t publis par Nacional, Novi list en partie, et mme Petrac [1] les avait utiliss dans sa dfense. Je ne vois pas que la police frappe la porte d’Ivo Pukanic [2] pour cette raison”, a-t-il dclar.

Le journaliste-blogueur suppose que la direction du SOA [3] est nerveuse en raison des textes dans lesquels il se prononce de faon critique sur la politique de cadres de cette agence.

Rappelons que le journaliste Zeljko Peratovic avait t arrt hier soir en raison du soupon qu’il avait rvl un secret d’tat. La police avait emport de chez lui, sur ordre judiciaire, environ 1.000 crits et trois ordinateurs. Aujourd’hui, autour de 16 heures, la police est galement venue Nova TV o elle a demand que deux documents diffuss soient supprims du blog de Peratovic.

Il y a quelques temps Peratovic avait accus l’tat et il avait prsent les documents ce sujet tous les services comptents.

J’avais prsent ces documents au comit du Parlement pour la politique interne et la scurit nationale, je les avais envoys tous les membres du comit du parlement. Hier soir la police m’a prsent ces mails que j’avais envoys il y a dj deux ans. Ils possdent par enregistrement tous mes appels par mail, sortant et entrant, en remontant jusqu’ trois ans, ils ont ouvert mon post”, affirme Peratovic, et aussi que la police l’a suivi ces dernires annes, d’aprs ce qu’il avait appris, mais qu’il lui tait difficile de le prouver.

Tous les documents qui m’ont t envoys ces derniers temps, je les ai reus d’une adresse e-mail anonyme.

A la question si le motif de son arrestation est d’avoir crit sur l’enregistrement vido de Fatima Skula, Peratovic dit qu’il ne le pense pas mais qu’il ne peut pas le confirmer.

Ils m’ont signal tre l’auteur de cet enregistrement, pour l’avoir distribu, j’ai dmenti tout cela et j’ai dclar avoir men un entretien avec cette personne, aprs qu’elle eut t battue, et je l’avais publi il y a dj sept ans.

Peratovic a dclar ne pas savoir exactement de quoi la police l’accuse, comment il se fait qu’une procdure est mene son encontre, et que chacune de ses dclarations en ce moment peut tre utilise contre lui.

Sur le blog, sur Blog.hr servis, Peratovic a publi plusieurs affaires dlicates de sorte qu’il est difficile de prciser ce qui a induit l’action de son arrestation.

“J’ai remarqu sur l’ordre que la police a reu du Parquet que le directeur du SOA avait demand il y a un mois une acclration du procs mon encontre, c’est pourquoi je peux conclure que les SOAs [sic] taient trs nerveux en raison de mes crits, je ne crois pas [que ce soit] cause des documents en raison desquels on m’accuse formellement, mais cause de mes critiques rptes sur l’embauche non transparente au SOA”, affirme Peratovic.

Peratovic dit que les informations qu’il a publies, selon lesquelles les services de scurit ont engag des employs qui n’ont pas pu passer le test de la sret ainsi que des footballeurs, n’ont jamais t dmenties.

La police criminelle de l’Administration policire de Zagreb, avec un ordre pour saisir les pices mobiles, a “visit” les locaux de Nova TV, dans lesquels se trouve le bureau de Blog.hr, afin de supprimer les documents secrets sur le blog de Peratovic.

La police a effac deux textes du blog, dans l’un est publi un document avec des propositions des services secrets britannique [adresses] au POA [4] pour briser le rseau Gotovina et sur ce qu’ils entreprennent dans le cas Petrac, or ce document a galement t publi dans d’autres mdias.

Peratovic affirme que sa fille et son pouse devaient partir en voyage la semaine prochaine et que cela aurait t moins cuisant si la police tait venue alors. Hier se trouvaient dans son appartement, sa belle-mre, son pouse et sa fille en bas ge.

“Ils ont voulu m’intimider en faisant pression sur la famille au moment o le parlement ne sige pas, ce qui fait que le comit comptent ne peut pas ragir. Ils se sont lgrement fourrs le doigt dans l’oeil”.

“Leur timing tait erron. Ils n’ont pas compt que la campagne lectorale est en cours et que les partis allaient prendre leurs distances sur une rpression de ce genre. De la sorte ils m’ont rendu service”, a dclar Peratovic, en prenant part l’mission Le Thme d’aujourd’hui de Nova TV.

Aujourd’hui arrive un soutien de toutes parts Peratovic, et galement des partis politiques mais il n’en sait rien.

“Mon portable est encore la police, et je ne sais donc pas qui m’apporte un soutien”.

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[1] Hrvoje Petrac : figure de la pgre zagrboise. Purge actuellement une peine de prison pour une affaire d’enlvement.

[2] Ivo Pukanic : fondateur de l’hebdomadaire Nacional

[3] SOA : Sigurnosno-obavjestajna agencija : l’Agence de la sret et du renseignement

[4] POA : Protuobavjestajna agencija : l’Agence de contre-espionnage.

21.10.2007

Zeljko Peratovic (4)

Article paru sur le site du “Jutarnji list” et dat d’hier (20-10-07).

L’arrestation de Peratovic : “Si le

coup est mont, quelqu’un rpondra”

Zagreb – Dubrovnik - Le Premier ministre Sanader a affirm aujourd’hui Cavtat que pour lui le cas du journaliste Zeljko Peratovic, qui a t arrt pour avoir prtendument livr des secrets d’tat, est termin.

Je ne sais pas qui a fait quoi, mais je sais une chose – nous sommes contre un tel mauvais traitement des journalistes, parce que je suis absolument pour la libert des mdias et cela nous l’avons montr durant ces quatre annes. Si quelqu’un a mont le coup, tant donn la campagne prlectorale, celui-l sera sanctionn. Est-ce Dundovic (le chef remplac de la police criminelle, note du journaliste) ou quelqu’un d’autre, c’est ce que nous verrons. La libert des mdias n’a pas de prix, elle est le pralable de la dmocratie et il en sera ainsi, a dclar Sanader avant l’inauguration officielle des canalisations de Cavtat.

Le prsident Stjepan Mesic a lui aussi soulign aujourd’hui que la libert des mdias est la base de la dmocratie et qu’il s’engagera toujours pour la libert de la parole publique, laquelle inclut galement la responsabilit. Il a ajout qu’il n’est pas au courant des dtails de l’arrestation du journaliste Zeljko Peratovic et donc qu’il “ne peut pas juger de sa lgitimit”.

Aprs avoir t arrt jeudi, et avoir termin vendredi soir l’hpital pour s’tre trouv mal suite l’interrogatoire policier durant toute la journe, le journaliste indpendant Zeljko Peratovic ne s’est pas trouv aujourd’hui la police. Son avocat Kresimir Skarica nous a dit cet aprs-midi que le MUP [1] les avait informs que la fouille de ses affaires tait termine. Skarica s’est nanmoins tonn d’une telle dcision du MUP.

Pour moi ce n’est pas logique qu’ils aient termin la fouille tant donn que pas mal d’affaires de Peratovic qui lui ont t prises n’ont pas t examines – affirme Skarica. Lors de la fouille, explique Skarica, doivent tre prsents soit Peratovic soit lui en qualit de son avocat.

Rappelons que Peratovic avait t arrt mercredi pour tre souponn d’avoir livr des secrets d’tat, et la police s’tait particulirement intresse au document du POA [2] datant de 2003, lorsque le directeur tait Franjo Turek, dans lequel sont analyss des crits de journalistes, dont certains de Peratovic, propos du fait que Gotovina [3] avait sjourn en Croatie.

Jeudi Peratovic avait t relax, aprs quoi il avait pass tout le vendredi tre interrog la police criminelle o la fouille de ses affaires avait t effectue. A la fin de la journe il s’tait senti mal – son coeur avait commenc battre, sa bouche tait devenue sche et il avait t pris de vertiges. La police avait appel les Urgences et il avait t amen Rebro, o il avait reu une piqre calmante puis t envoy au EKG [4].

Son avocat dit que les mdecins avaient voulu le garder l’hpital mais que Peratovic avait insist pour qu’ils l’autorisent rentrer chez lui.

Il est maintenant dans le cercle de sa famille et il est calme – nous a dclar Skarica. Etant donn que l’enqute est termine, Skarica explique que le procs verbal s’en va au Parquet qui doit rendre une dcision. Nous saurons tout lundi – a dclar l’avocat.

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[1] MUP : Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova : le Ministre de l’intrieur

[2] POA : Protuobavjestajna agencija : l’Agence de contre-espionnage

[3] Gotovina : Gnral de l’arme croate. Il attend actuellement d’tre jug par le TPIY pour crimes de guerre[4] EKG : Elektrokardiogram

Rem : Comment le Premier ministre peut-il dire qu’il ne sait pas qui a fait quoi mais que pour lui le cas est clos ??? Quant au Prsident, cette affaire semble le tremper dans la mme ignorance.

31.10.2007

Zeljko Peratovic (5)

Je suis oblig de revenir sur l’affaire Peratovic malgr que ce journaliste ait t remis en libert.

Article paru avant-hier (29-10-07) sur le site “Business.hr“. Le contenu reste valable.

La liste des objets qui ont t saisis chez Peratovic montre quel point les fonctionnaires de police ont compris avec zle leur devoir. C’est ainsi que les policiers ont emport de l’appartement du journaliste indpendant tout le matriel pour l’ordinateur, y compris le moniteur, le clavier et l’imprimante – par consquent des instruments techniques sur lesquels thoriquement ne peuvent rester inscrites aucunes donnes que ce soit.

Les objets saisis n’ont toujours pas t restitus Peratovic de sorte qu’un des journalistes les plus bnfiques en Croatie, qui s’occupe d’enqutes sur la corruption et la criminalit dans les cercles de l’tat les plus haut placs, est rest sans moyens de travail un mois avant les lections. Peratovic vit encore dans l’incertitude et peut-tre sera-t-il soulev son encontre une accusation, le pire pilogue incluant la possibilit que Peratovic finisse en prison pour trois annes en raison de “rvlation de secret officiel”. Ce mme secret qui avait t publi en avril 2007 mais qui n’avait drang personne jusqu’ la priode prlectorale. Dans l’espoir que l’opinion publique et les institutions comptentes comprennent dans quel danger se trouve la libert de parole en Croatie, nous publions l’ordre de perquisition de l’appartement de Peratovic ainsi que la liste de la documentation et du matriel confisqus. [...]

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16.11.2007

Co dovolit tajnm slubm?

Ministr Martin Řman přiel se staronovm nvrhem vraznho usnadněn prce tajnch slueb. Kontrola telefonnch hovorů, jejich dlky včetně lokalizace osob, obsah textovch zprv, elektronick poty, a to a rok zpětně. To ve skutečně tajnm slubm prci usnadn. Změr je odůvodniteln bojem proti terorismu, extremismu a jinm strakům na doby. Vdyť clem BIS jakoto vnitřn zpravodajsk instituce je prvě zskvn, shromaďovn a vyhodnocovn informac vznamnch pro bezpečnost sttu, ochranu stavnho zřzen a důleitch ekonomickch zjmů země. Znělo by to snad i konejivě, kdyby se na druhou stranu počtalo i s poslenm kontrolnch mechanismů, kter by se zaměřily na omezen přpadů zneuit těchto zpravodajskch technik. Měla zde platit přm měrnost, vce prv k sledovn občanů i cizinců vce kontroly. Zpravodajsk sluby se lidově neoznačuj nadarmo tajn. Z jejich činnosti se toho logicky ven moc nedonese, a i proto mon na běn občany působ tak trochu jako střela, o n se nev, co je ve skutečnosti jejm clem a kdo ji vystřelil. Při čten zprv o nvrhu na poslen tto zpravodajsk techniky se mně vybavil jeden aktuln přpad od jinud. V turisticky oblbenm Chorvatsku se nedvno odehrla afra, jejm hlavnm hrdinou se nechtěně stal novinř eljko Peratović. Peratović byl zadren, jeho byt byl důkladně prohledn, byly mu zabaveny dokumenty z jeho archvu a osobn počtače, a jako třenička na dortu byl obviněn ze zveřejněn sttnho tajemstv, je představovaly tři dokumenty, na svm blogu. Dobře mu tak, řeklo by se. V celm přpadu je vak několik ale. Prvnm ale je, e se zjistilo, e informace, je byly předmětem supertajnch dokumentů, u dřve zveřejnila jin mdia. Druhm ale je, e sttnmu zastupitelstv podnět ke sthn novinře podala tamn tajn sluba. A poslednm velkm ale je, e Peratović se mimo jin dlouhodobě zaměřoval na problematiku chorvatskch tajnch slueb a různch nevarů ji obklopujcch jako např. zaměstnvn bvalch fotbalistů a jinch znmost namsto mladch odbornků. Tyto novinřovy prohřeky zavdaly přčinu k jeho odposlouchvn, monitorovn jeho poty, včetně t elektronick, a vystilo v policejn popotahovn typu totalitnch praktik. Tajn sluby namsto toho, aby se zaměřily na boj proti ivlům ohroujcm stt, se raději zaměřily na boj proti ivlu ohroujcmu vyhřt idle funkcionřů. Zjednoduen prce tajnm slubm je tedy v zsadě snad dobrou mylenkou, vdyť jsou tu k zajitěn na bezpečnosti, mus vak existovat dostatečn mechanismy kontroly prvě proto, aby se zamezilo zneuit jejich činnosti k prosazovn různch nesttnch zjmů.

16.11.2007

Kdo je eljko Peratović / Tko je eljko Peratović

eljko Peratović

* chorvatsk novinř a bloger (http://peratovic.blog.hr/) na voln noze; * nositel několika mezinrodnch novinřskch oceněn; * působil jako reportr o vlečnch děnch v Chorvatsku, po vlce se zaměřil mimo jin na problematiku vyetřen pravdy o vlečnch udlostech v Gospići (zejmna zločiny proti lidskosti nad srbskmi civilisty v tto oblasti) a v tto souvislosti se ujal i přpadu Milana Levara, kter byl později zavraděn. Pot se zaměřil na obstrukce ve vyetřovn Levarovy vrady. Dlouhodobě se zabv otzkou chorvatskch tajnch slueb a různch nevarů ji obepltajcch. V tto souvislosti se zabv i tmatem vlečnch profitrů.*

slobodni novinar,

*

dobitnik nagrada za novinarstvo,

* bavi se (među ostalim) problematikom tajnih slubi, istrage slučaja Gospić, ubojstva Milana Levara

Za vie informacija posjetite stranice / vce informac na: Peratovic Net; 45 Lines on Blog.hr; 45 Lines on Mojblog.hr; 45 Lines on Pollitika.com
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Commentaires:

Content de voir qu’il existe quelqu’un qui s’intresse galement au journaliste Peratovic. Salutation aux amis Tchques et solidarit avec les blogs qui dnoncent les affaires de corruption et de criminalit.

Pozdrav.

Ecrit par : Nabucho | 16.11.2007

Harassment of Croatian reporter Peratovic

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Harassment of Croatian reporter raises concernsEuropean Diary: The men in leather jackets came at 7am in the morning with pistols strapped to their backs. They confiscated four computers, a mobile phone, contact books and hundreds of documents belonging to the Croatian investigative journalist Zeljko Peratovic, writes Jamie Smyth

“They told my four-year-old daughter and my wife not to move and took everything from 15 years of investigative work – documents, cassettes and CDs,” says Peratovic, who spent the night in prison before being released earlier this month. Peratovic was detained on suspicion of disclosing state secrets on his internet blog, in a move demanded by both the head of the secret service and the office of the public prosecutor. His detention, which has taken place ahead of a general election scheduled for November 25th, has prompted public concerns over press freedom in Croatia, a country that wants to join the EU in 2009. The international journalist association Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned the arrest, which it said related to posts on the reporter’s blog.

Peratovic, who received a press freedom prize from the Austrian section of Reporters Without Borders in 2003, is best known for his reporting on the death of Milan Levar, a witness for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Levar was killed by a car bomb in 2000 in Gospic, a town in southwest Croatia. Since then Peratovic has struggled to persuade mainstream newspapers in Croatia to accept his articles. He also alleges regular harassment by the Croatian secret service. “I think they arrested me for revenge and to try and find out who my informants are in the state services and the media,” Peratovic told The Irish Times. “The secret service has been bugging my phone, opening letters and following me because of my work, which has revealed links between top politicians and crimes in the 1990s.”

The reaction to the arrest from the public and from journalism associations has prompted Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader to order an inquiry into the affair. It has also raised fears that Croatia’s past could re-emerge to damage its EU prospects. State harassment of journalists was common during the 1990s when Croatia was ruled with an iron grip by authoritarian president Franjo Tudjman. But in recent years the government led by Sanader has implemented several legislative reforms meant to guarantee freedom of the press. Indeed, last December the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe ruled that enough progress had been made to enable it to conclude its work on press freedom.

“Political, but also commercial pressure on media will probably continue in Croatia, yet the mission believes that media institutions and the civil society sector have reached the point where they can assume the watchdog and advisory role,” says the OSCE’s Ljerka Drazenovic. “The fact that reactions from the media, media associations and civil society circles were so prompt and loud [ about Peratovic], tell that public awareness of protecting this democratic value is high. It is per se a good sign, indicating the achieved level of media freedom in Croatia will be preserved.” Under OSCE standards journalists should not be responsible for protecting state secrets or held accountable for publishing classified information. Only the officials who have a specific legal duty to maintain confidentiality may be held liable if they allow disclosures, says Drazenovic.

Just one important law on press freedom remains to be put in place in Croatia – legislation on the state Croatian Radio and Television network. This was put on hold until after the election because of political sensitivities. The government also needs to follow through on plans to set up a media council, says the OSCE. But new laws do not always change practice, and state control over some media is a real issue, says Ivan Butkovic, of the Croatian Association of Radio and Newspapers.

“Big media firms can resist political and commercial pressure, but at a local level there are issues in Croatia. For example 60 per cent of local radio stations are owned by local authorities. This means local politicians wield great influence,” he says. Josip Kregar, dean of the faculty of law at the University of Zagreb, agrees that control over local radio either by local politicians or entrepreneurs often gives them huge sway in local communities. He also highlights the growing commercial pressure on the media exerted by big companies, which can use advertising to control it. But he says the controversy over the arrest of Peratovic probably reflects problems with the Croatian secret service rather than political influence over the media. “There is freedom of the press in Croatia, but the secret service is not yet fully under political control,” says Kregar. “It is not one case with a journalist, but it is about a conspiracy network behind the secret service.” He points out that political oversight of the secret service will be critical when the EU comes to judge Croatia’s readiness to join. Peratovic, who is pledging to continue working as an investigate reporter in Croatia, gives his own assessment of Croatia’s readiness to join the 27-member club.

With things like this happening to journalists how can we join the EU?” he asks.

The Irish Times, Dublin, Tuesday, October 30, 2007

U ime glavnog pokrovitelja Press Freedom Award 2003 Signal fr Europa, generalni direktor OMV-a dr. Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer čestita autoru 45 linesa na uručenoj nagradi. Rubina Mhring, potpredsjednica RSF-a i predsjednica ROG-a zadovoljno se smijei. Beč. siječanj 2004. (foto: Monika Morawetz)

18.10.07: Kroatien ROG-Preistrger Zeljko Peratovic in Kroatien verhaftet

Investigativer Journalist wird der Preisgabe von Staatsgeheimnissen beschuldigt

Reporter ohne Grenzen sterreich ist in groer Sorge um den kroatischen Journalisten Zeljko Peratovic, der gestern Abend in Kroatien verhaftet wurde. Peratovic wurde 2003 fr seinen investigativen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der kroatischen Kriegsverbrechen von ROG sterreich mit dem Press Freedom Award ausgezeichnet.

Wie Peratovics Ehefrau ROG mitteilte, kam es gestern frh zunchst zu einer siebenstndigen Hausdurchsuchung, bei der auch drei Laptops, ein PC und schriftliche Unterlagen des Journalisten beschlagnahmt wurden. Peratovic wird vorgeworfen, in seinem Blog Staatsgeheimnisse preisgegeben zu haben.

Konkret soll es um einen Eintrag gehen, in dem auf eine fr heute Abend (18.10., 20:10 h) geplante Sendung des kroatischen Staatsfernsehens namens “Brisani Prostor” hingewiesen wird. In der Sendung soll ein Interview mit Fatima Skula gezeigt werden, die als Zeugin des Internationalen Kriegsverbechertribunals in Den Haag ber Kriegsverbrechen an Serben in der norddalmatischen Kleinstadtz Gospic berichtet hatte. Peratovic schreibt in seinem Eintrag: Diese Sendung enthlt authentische Aussagen ber die Ereignisse in Gospic. Hauptverdchtige sind der verstorbene Verteidigungsminister Gojko Susak und der der HDZ-Sopitzenkandidat fr die kroatischen Parlamentswahlen am 25. November, Ex-Vizeprsident Darko Milinovic (HDZ).

Was von dem gesamten Gesprch auch ausgestrahlt wird, werden wir am Donnerstag Abend wissen. Nach der Durchsuchung wurde Peratovic auf die Polizeiwache mitgenommen, wo er sechs Stunden lang in einem informellen Gesprch befragt wurde. Der Journalist wartet nun auf die Einvernahme durch den Staatsanwalt, der entscheidet, ob Peratovic bis zu einem mglichen Gerichtsverfahren weiter in U-Haft bleiben muss. Die Hchststrafe fr den Verrat von Staatsgeheimnissen betrgt drei Jahre Haft. Der 1966 geborene Journalist hatte bereits in den 90er-Jahren in den Wochenzeitungen Nacional und Globus ber die Kriegsverbrechen in Gospic berichtet – zu einer Zeit, als 80 % der Kroaten der Meinung waren, dass die eigene Seite keinerlei Kriegsverbrechen begangen htte.

Peratovic war auch selbst Zeuge des Internationalen Kriegsverbrechertribunals fr das ehemalige Jugoslawien. Einer seiner Informanten, ein Augenzeuge der Verbrechen und ebenfalls Zeuge des Tribunals, wurde spter ermordet. Peratovic wurde wegen seiner Artikel immer wieder des nationalen Verrats bezichtigt. 2003 wurde er von Extremisten bedroht und belstigt, einmal wurde er auf offener Strae von einem nicht verurteilten Kriegsverbrecher krperlich attackiert. Seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter zogen daraufhin aus Sicherheitsgrnden in die Schweiz. Von seinem Arbeitgeber, der kroatischen Zeitung Vjesnik, wurde Peratovic im August 2005 fristlos entlassen. Offiziell wurde dieser Schritt damit begrndet, dass er ein Interview fr die Wochenzeitschrift Feral Tribune gemacht und verffentlicht hatte, wozu er seinem Vertrag gem nicht berechtigt war.

Peratovic zog daraufhin zu seiner Familie in die Schweiz. Zu der gestrigen Verhaftung kam es im Zuge einer Kroatien-Reise der Familie. Peratovic hatte sich schon im Dezember 2006 an Reporter ohne Grenzen gewandt und dargelegt, dass er sich durch den kroatischen Geheimdienst verfolgt fhle und guten Grund zur Annahme habe, dass sein Telefon abgehrt werde. Erst am 8. Oktober hatte er erneut in seinem Blog gepostet, dass er jngsten Informationen zufolge wieder verstrkt durch den kroatischen Geheimdienst berwacht wird.

ROG, Presse / Aktuelle News

Giornalismo croato ancora sotto attacco

Il recente arresto del giornalista Zeljko Peratovic, sospettato di aver scoperto presunti segreti di stato poi pubblicati sul suo blog, ha riportato allattenzione la libertŕ di stampa in Croazia.

Dura la reazione dellOrdine dei giornalisti croati In Croazia larresto del giornalista indipendente Zeljko Peratovic, sospettato di aver scoperto presunti segreti di stato poi pubblicati sul suo blog, ha scatenato ormai da giorni una bufera che non accenna a placarsi. Questo avvenimento inammissibile tale e stato definito larresto del giornalista dal Comitato di Helsinki croato per i diritti umani nella dichiarazione pubblica del 23 ottobre – ha di nuovo messo in primo piano la questione della libertŕ dei media croati, che fino alla fine del 1999, durante il governo dellex presidente croato Franjo Tudjman, sempre stata sotto seria minaccia.

Peratovic, ex giornalista del settimanale politico Globus e poi del quotidiano Vjesnik, oggi giornale filo-governativo, stato arrestato mercoledě scorso, dopo che la polizia con mandato di perquisizione del suo appartamento gli ha chiesto la consegna dei computer, dei cd e dellarchivio. Nel pomeriggio dello stesso giorno, la polizia ha fatto irruzione anche nei locali di TV Nova, una delle tre televisioni croate con la licenza nazionale, chiedendo che i tecnici dei computer cancellassero dal blog di Peratovic i due contenuti in questione. Questo perch TV Nova proprietaria del server sul quale Peratovic aveva il suo blog. Quando giovedě scorso, dopo linterrogatorio, la polizia lo ha rilasciato, Peratovic ha dichiarato che non gli chiaro di quali presunti segreti statali si tratti. Uno dei documentati pubblicati sul suo blog 45 lines si riferiva al pedinamento della polizia, di cui stato oggetto insieme ad altri cinque giornalisti a causa dei testi su Ante Gotovina, il generale accusato dallAja per crimini di guerra e al tempo latitante. Gli altri due documenti sui contatti dei servizi segreti britannici con i servizi segreti croati non ha fatto che prenderli dai testi giŕ pubblicati dal settimanale Nacional e dal Hrvatski list. Questi documenti sono stati pubblicati sui giornali e io li ho soltanto presi e pubblicati sul mio blog, ha detto Peratovic.

Peratovic si occupava dindagini scottanti, il giornalista che ha scritto in modo piů dettagliato su Milan Levar, il testimone dellAja assassinato nel 2000. Levar aveva detto ai media quello che sapeva sul conto del generale Mirko Norac (sotto processo a Zagabria insieme al generale Rahim Ademi per crimini di guerra commessi nelloperazione Sacca di Medak) coinvolto nei crimini di Gospic, per i quali e stato condannato a 12 anni di carcere dal Tribunale distrettuale di Rijeka. Levar stato ucciso in modo misterioso da una bomba davanti alla sua casa di Gospic il suo assassino non mai stato identificato.

Peratovic si occupato anche dei temi della criminalita organizzata e spesso era in contatto anche con informatori del sottobosco croato. Temi dei suoi articoli sono stati il presidente Stjepan Mesic, il premier Ivo Sanader e il capo dei servizi segreti croati Tomislav Karamarko

Peratovic di recente ha pubblicato sul suo blog anche la testimonianza di una tale Fatima Skula che accusa pesantemente il vicepresidente del Parlamento croato Darko Milinovic (membro del partito di governo del premier Sanader, Unione democratica croata, HDZ) perch coinvolto nei crimini di guerra di Gospic.

Larresto di Peratovic presto diventato oggetto della campagna elettorale che, a fronte delle elezioni parlamentari in Croazia, fissate per il 25 novembre, si giŕ infiammata alla grande. Dal Partito socialdemocratico (SDP) allopposizione, che i sondaggi prevedono vincitore delle prossime elezioni, giunta la seguente dichiarazione: Di nuovo gli organi giudiziari, come alla fine degli anni novanta, si sono gettati contro i giornalisti invece di indirizzare la loro attivitŕ verso quelli che dallinterno degli organi statali consegnano i dati classificati ai giornalisti. Il mio punto di vista noto e lo ripeterň di nuovo: io sono per una totale libertŕ dei media e, per quanto riguarda me e il mio governo, non possono esserci restrizioni di alcun tipo. Ovviamente la libertŕ dei media e la libertŕ in generale includono anche la responsabilitŕ di ciň che viene detto e scritto. Nessuno puň prescindere da questa responsabilitŕ, n i politici, n i giornalisti, n nessuno altro, ma io sto sempre dalla parte dei giornalisti, ha detto Sanader promettendo unindagine con la quale si accerterŕ in che modo si e giunti allarresto del giornalista. Lui [Sanader] e per la liberta dei media ma ama arrestare i giornalisti e a questi arresti e al maltrattamento partecipa anche il ministero diretto dal suo ministro (degli Affari Interni, Ivica Kirin), ha replicato a Sanader il capo del SDP, Zoran Milanovic. LOrdine dei giornalisti croati ha reagito in modo severo allarresto del loro membro, valutando questo gesto come un drastico esempio di minaccia alle libertŕ giornalistiche in Croazia e come unimmemorabile pressione contro la liberta dei media e dei giornalisti. Se sono stati minacciati dei segreti di stato, allora gli inquirenti dovrebbero occuparsi delle persone che passano i segreti e non dei giornalisti che li pubblicano, fa sapere lOrdine dei giornalisti croati.

Leditorialista dello Jutarnji list di Zagabria, Davor Butkovic afferma che larresto di Peratovic sia stato un errore madornale e aggiunge che una cosa del genere non accadeva nemmeno al tempo del presidente Franjo Tudjman, noto per il suo modo autoritario di governare e per il suo continuo conflitto con i giornalisti. Lo Stato non deve arrestare i giornalisti a causa della loro attivita professionale, dunque nemmeno per la pubblicazione dei segreti di stato, dice Butkovic.

Secondo il comunicato di Freedom House, che valuta lo stato di liberta dei media nel mondo, la Croazia lanno scorso era al 87-imo posto insieme al Brasile, Timor Est e il Perů. Gli analisti avvertono che larresto dei giornalisti, come nel caso di Zeljko Peratovic, non contribuira di certo al miglioramento della gia bassa valutazione della Croazia ottenuta questanno.

Osservatorio Balcani, Da Osijek, scrive Drago Hedl, 25.10.2007<

Karamarko and Oreskovic

Friday, May 18th, 2007
Karamarko i Oreskovic
Cover sheet of todays Novi list (photo by Denis Lovrovic) with my photoshop intervention (Karmarko on left side)

By last years residence in freedom of Tihomir Oreskovic, who is sentenced in Rijeka on 15 years in prison for till now solved the most monstrous war crime commited by Croatian army, are shuddered Milorad Pupovac, Zoran Pusic, Branko Mijic and Vesna Skare-Ozbolt. Former Minister of Justice says that she was under pressure by the side of some men in Government (Ivo Sanader?) and secret services (Tomislav Karamarko?) to provide to Oreskovic during her mandate transfer from Lepoglava to somewhere else (probably to prison half-opened, Lipovica, where at the moment is Mirko Norac), which she did not accept. She added that Oreskovic didnt complaint at that time about his health problems.

Ivo Banac told me that he was witness of Oreskovics arrival in Croatia in 1991.

- I was travelling by the last flight of American company Delta from New York airport Kennedy. I think it was the day when Baranja fell 25 August 1991. To my seat approached one guy with beard and asked me if I was professor Banac. He introduced himself as Tihomir Oreskovic and told me that he was going to Croatia to fight. He started to annoy me with some brochures about guerrilla warfare (CIAs? comm. Z.P.). I was wondering why did he need brochures about guerrilla warfare if we were going to establish state and army, but I didnt ask much. Later one policeman who was working at the airport Pleso at that time, told me that together with Oreskovic in the same aeroplane came contingent of weapons. Surely you ask how that weapon could pass severe control on New York airport. I ask that myself, he told me that in front of witnesses Ranko Ostojic, Ivan Padjen and Josip Boljkovac, American-Croatian professor Ivo Banac.

Deceased Milan Levar not rarely used to say that Oreskovic is an American, for what he has done in Gospic he was instructed in the USA. Allegedly Levar said that in his testimony in Hagg in 1997 so at that time Haags prosecutor, Louis Arbour was in big problem. Because of Levars testimony in Haag allegedly even Carla Del Ponte decided to leave trial to Oreskovic and Norac to be held in Croatia.

The fact that Oreskovic in America was a CIA man, on trial in Rijeka confirmed also Smiljan Reljic, and Josip Perkovic found out that he got the fact from Nikola Stedul . Oreskovic himself in interview for Vecernji list said that in America he was cooperating with FBI, allegedly against UDBA.

When after murder of Milan Levar he suppose to be detained, allegedly he asked for help of embassy of the USA in Croatia, but logically, Americans didnt want to hear about him. In complaint on the sentence to Supreme Court he asked to be heard American of Croatian origin, Toni Kujundzic and offered the court his address in the USA.

Besides all this, I dont believe that American administration asked from Ivo Sanader and Tomislav Karamarko to make easier prison days for Tihomir Oreskovic.

I know for certain that Tomislav Karamarko is connected with group around Mirko Norac and Tihomir Oreskovic. Karamarko, as a chief of UNS 2000/01, has blocked police from interrogation of one witness who could connect Oreskovic with murder of Milan Levar. The security chief of UNS, Zoran Cvrk, in close connections with police specialists Mladen Markac and Franjo Drljo, allegedly at that time actively participated in obstruction of investigation of Milan Levars murder. According to unofficial information of 45 lines, Zoran Cvrk who works today as a commissioner for security of HNS, personally was giving track suits and T-shirts of HNS (Croatian football league) to Tihomir Oreskovic in which he walks around in Zagreb and Lika.

If he expects any support from international community for forthcoming elections, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader will have to firmly fence himself from newly scandal situation with Oreskovic for which formal responsibility is on Ministry of Justice.

President Stjepan Mesic should react too, considering that secret services are under his tutorship. Allegedly these days Mesic asked for a report from Tomislav KaramarkoJosip Boljkovac and in which is claimed that chief of SOA Zagreb Milijan Brkic because of letter which got , another former police specialist, illegally runs investigations about communist post war crimes and that he closely cooperates with the group of Vice Vukojevic.

As in todays column in Novi list noticed Branko Mijic, President Mesic by amnesty reduced sentence for two years to the third condemned for Gospic crime, Stjepan Grandic, so Mesics possible moves in sanctioning of responsibility for Oreskovics living in freedom should not be taken as the honest ones.

Namely, SOAs circles are talking that Mesic is thinking about replacing Tomislav Karamarko and putting on his place inclined to SDP Spiro Mise, present consultant of SOAs chief for operative. In fact, Karamarko would be promoted because he would be placed after that for chief of office of Council for national security (something like former UNS on which front he has already been). From that position Karamarko could still supervise the work in SOA and be sure that nobody is doing nothing against him and Mesic. After all, meanwhile he by connections employed in SOA tenths of loyal people to himself, whom Mise, even if he wants to, couldnt fire instantly.

The circles bring also the sensational gossip by which there is a agreement Mesic-Karamarko, which says that present President will do everything in his power in order to, in a few years, Tomislav Karamarko inherit him on the top of the state.

Post is published on 27.04.2007. at 13:18 on 45 lines