The Zagreb county office of the Chief State Prosecutor (DORH) on Thursday filed a new indictment against Zdravko Mamic on suspicion of having defrauded Dinamo Zagreb football club of 16.7 million kuna (€2.2 million) from 2002 to 2007 when he had was an executive in the club.

The indictement was filed before Osijek County Court.

The DORH office, which released the information about this indictment on its website earlier on Thursday, also recommended this case be joined with the ongoing proceedings against Mamic before the Osijek court.

Last June, the same court had sentenced Mamic, who had previously been Dinamo’s top executive, to six and a half years in prison for embezzlement of funds from the club.

His brother Zoran, former Dinamo director Damir Vrbanovic and tax official Milan Pernar were also found guilty of the charges made by the anti-corruption office Uskok.

The four defendants were charged by Uskok with illegally syphoning 116 million kuna (€15.7 million) from the club, as well as tax evasion, for not paying 12.2 million kuna (€1.6 million) in taxes. Zoran Mamic was sentenced to four years and 11 months, Vrbanovic to three years, and Milan Pernar four years and two months in prison.

None of the four accused had turned up at the sentence-hearing session in Osijek last summer. The day before the first-instance verdict was handed down, Mamic left for the town of Medjugorje in the neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he resides to this day, as he has dual citizenship.

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