Thursday, November 4, 2010

Croatia jails six for newspaper editor's murder

A Croatian court sentenced six people to lengthy prison terms on Wednesday for the 2008 killing of an influential newspaper editor whose political weekly had worked on exposing crime and corruption in the Balkans. Eight people, believed to have links to organised crime, have been indicted for the murder of the Nacional weekly owner Ivo Pukanic and another Nacional employee by a car bomb in downtown Zagreb in October 2008. Three of them are on trial in neighbouring Serbia for the same crime, including one, Zeljko Milovanovic, who was indicted in both countries. Milovanovic, tried in Zagreb in absentia, is believed to have activated the bomb planted under Pukanic's car and received the toughest sentence of 40 years in prison. The other five were given jail terms from 15 to 33 years at the end of a nine-month trial held under tight security in Zagreb. All of them had denied any involvement in the murder.

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