The county court in the eastern city of Osijek on Friday upheld a third indictment against the former head of Dinamo Zagreb Football Club, Zdravko Mamic.

The indictment was brought by the Zagreb County Prosecutor’s Office and it charges Mamic with siphoning HRK 16.7 million from the club between 2002 and 2007. It will be joined with the second indictment brought by the USKOK anti-corruption office, which was confirmed in May 2019, Osijek County Court spokesman Miroslav Rozac told reporters.

Mamic, who holds dual Croatian and Bosnian citizenship, fled to the neighbouring country in June last year, the day before the announcement of the first court verdict, which sentenced him to six and a half years in prison for siphoning about HRK 116 million from Dinamo.

Asked if Mamic could be tried in his absence, Rozac said that he could, but after the necessary legal conditions were met.

The third indictment charges Mamic with siphoning funds from Dinamo between 25 September 2002 and 8 March 2007 via the club’s bank account in Klagenfurt, Austria. During that time he served as a member of the club’s executive board, executive vice-president and management board member and had the authority to manage money in the Klagenfurt bank account.

In May 2019, Osijek County Court confirmed the second USKOK indictment against Mamic and six other defendants charged with defrauding the club of about HRK 200 million. Although this indictment was upheld, Bosnian judicial authorities decided that there were no grounds for Mamic’s extradition to Croatia.

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