The former chief of Croatia's secret police is to face charges of illegally tapping the phone of President Stipe Mesic, the daily Republika reported Tuesday.
Ivan Brzovic is alleged to have carried out the tapping from 1998 until elections in January, which brought a new pro-European government to power, said the paper citing judicial sources.
It said Brzovic ordered phone tapping without the written permission of then Interior Minister Ivan Penic, even though opposition leaders were also under surveillance at the time.
During the investigation it was discovered that over the past 10 years Mesic had on three separate occasions been under surveillance of the Croatian secret services controlled by the former ruling Croatian Democratic Union, Republika said -- ZAGREB (AFP)
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