Marijan Hanzekovic

Zagreb County Court on Wednesday ruled that secretly taped phone calls of Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic and other persons must be taken out of the indictment put forward by Croatia's anti-graft body, the Office for Supressing Corruption and Organised Crime, USKOK.

Croatia's Constitutional Court on Thursday released Mayor Milan Bandic from custody, acting on an appeal from his lawyers, who said his fundamental rights had been breached in March when the Zagreb County Court put him behind bars.