Mamićs offer 7 million kuna bail in cash

The non-trial panel of the Zagreb County Court will decide next week on appeals against the pre-trial detention of recently arrested Dinamo officials, brothers Zdravko and Zoran Mamić, and executive director of the Croatian Football Federation Damir Vrbanović, whose lawyers have asked the court to allow them to defend themselves from freedom in exchange for cash bail, reports the Patria News Agency.

The fourth defendant, tax official Milan Pernar, who was the first to be placed in pre-trial detention, did not appeal, unofficially because USKOK proposed the smallest number of witnesses against him.

The lawyers of the three suspects who appealed against pre-trial detention have again offered bail to the court as collateral that their clients will not obstruct the investigation and repeat the offense while free, which is why USKOK requested that they be imprisoned during the investigation.

For Zdravko Mamić, a bail of five million kuna was offered, for his brother Zoran two million, and for Vrbanović 500 thousand kuna in cash. Therefore, it is not excluded that the non-trial panel that will decide on the appeals of investigating judge Erna Dražančić will propose that she consider the possibility of release on bail and additional precautionary measures.

The Mamićs had previously offered Zoran Mamić's house, worth around 20 million kuna, as bail, but the investigating judge did not accept it as bail, probably due to the 'encumbrances' registered on it.

Vrbanović had not offered bail until now, but there was a change in the defense strategy after he terminated the power of attorney of lawyer Darko Maržić and hired Mato Matić, who in some previous cases was also part of Zdravko Mamić's legal team, writes Index.