Justice and Public Administration Minister Ivan Malenica said on Wednesday the State Prosecutor's Office (DORH), and the USKOK and PNUSKOK anti-corruption offices were independent and that there was no executive authority influence on their work, nor a reason to question that.

“There is no executive authority influence on those bodies at all and I see no reason to question if it exists,” he told the press ahead of an inner cabinet meeting.

He said it was necessary to explain how DORH worked because some MPs and opposition politicians were bringing its work into question.

DORH is independent and impartial in its work, the Criminal Procedure Act is clear on that, Malenica said, adding that USKOK and PNUSKOK did their job professionally and independently.

He called the opposition’s draft decision on the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry commission flippant. He said some things in it did not make sense and that some were not in line with the law because, he added, the law says that one question should be asked, while the opposition asked a dozen.

“They set the whole thing too broadly. Their draft is flippant, i.e. the proposal that the inquiry commission deal with certain things which are in the remit of a score of parliamentary committees as well as other bodies,” Malenica said.

There are already mechanisms and bodies which can address those questions, he added.