Indictment filed against Luka Modrić and Dejan Lovren

(Patria) - The Municipal State Attorney's Office in Osijek yesterday filed indictments with the Municipal Court in that city against two Croatian citizens (born 1989 and 1985) for the criminal offenses of giving false testimony under Article 305, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code/11.

Jutarnji list unofficially learns that these are Dejan Lovren and Luka Modrić.

Dejan Lovren (born 1989) is accused of committing the aforementioned criminal offense on September 1, 2017, at the County Court in Osijek; during the hearing in a criminal case against four defendants for abuse of office and authority under Article 291, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code/11; even though the presiding judge warned him that he was obliged to tell the truth and that giving false testimony is a criminal offense.

He is accused of knowingly giving false testimony that he signed an annex to his professional playing contract shortly after signing his professional playing contract with his parent club, even though he knew this was not true.

The defendant is accused of knowingly giving false testimony that he personally signed three letters (letters sent to his parent club requesting payment of a certain percentage of the transfer fee in his name and containing his signature), as well as falsely testifying that he was in Croatia during those days and that he personally opened a special bank account in Zagreb and that on the day the money was paid, he personally transferred that money to a third party's bank account, even though he was aware that he was in France at the time.

Luka Modrić (born 1985) is accused of committing the aforementioned criminal offense on June 13, 2017, at the County Court in Osijek; during the hearing in a criminal case against four defendants for abuse of office and authority under Article 291, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code/11; even though the presiding judge warned him that he was obliged to tell the truth and that giving false testimony is a criminal offense.

He is accused of knowingly giving false testimony that he signed annexes to his professional playing contract (regulating the division of the transfer fee between him and his parent club) every time he extended his professional contract and that he re-signed these annexes after leaving his parent club. He is accused of knowing that this was not true because he signed the aforementioned contract annexes when he left his parent club.

The defendant is accused that, when presented with parts of the minutes of his interrogation during the investigation, he knowingly gave false testimony that when giving his statement during the investigation, he only meant to regulate his civil-legal relationship with a third party and that he did not state during the investigation that he signed annexes to the contract with his parent club later, even though he was aware that this was not true.