Croatian police issue arrest warrant for ex-PM

Associated Press= ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Police have issued an international arrest warrant for former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who left the country just as it became clear that prosecutors wanted him investigated and detained on corruption charges.

However, a friend of Sanader Jerko Rosinsaid, said on state-run TV Friday that the former leader was on a foreign business trip and would cut it short to return home. An Internet portal, t-portal.hr, reported that Sanader has hired a lawyer in Zagreb.

Police spokesman Krunoslav Borovec told The Associated Press on Friday that the warrant for Sanader — who is now a lawmaker — was issued overnight and sent to Interpol.

Once hailed at home and abroad for uprooting the nationalism that reigned in Croatia in the 1990s and making it pro-Western, Sanader is now technically a fugitive. Biographical information and his photo appeared on a police list of wanted persons Friday, and police searched his home.
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