Former PM sentenced, HDZ party fined and ordered to pay €2m in graft retrial

Former Prime Minister and HDZ leader Ivo Sanader has been sentenced to 8 years in prison in the Fimi Media corruption retrial on Friday. Former HDZ treasurer, Mladen Barisic, and HDZ accountant, Branka Pavosevic, have also been sentenced to prison, while the HDZ as an organisation has been fined 3.5 million kuna (€463,000) and ordered to pay back 14.6 million kuna (€1.9 million) into the state budget. Pročitaj više