Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) lawmaker Stipan Saslin on Tuesday dismissed the accusations by Homeland Movement (DP) MP Stipe Mlinaric who laid the blame on the veterans' affairs minister for a recent incident involving officials Stjepan Sucic and Krunoslav Seremet.

Saslin said that the HDZ condemned the misconduct of Sucic and Seremet, who were held by police for their disorderly behaviour in a bar in Vukovar shortly after midnight last Friday, however the party also dismissed the accusations levelled by the Opposition against Veterans’ Affairs Minister Tomo Medved and their demand that he should also resign.

After the Vukovar incident, Sucic resigned as the ministry’s State Secretary.

The resignation of Sucic closed the case, Saslin said at a news conference in the parliament.

Mlinaric’s claims that an employee of the Security and Intelligence (SOA) agency had come to the Vukovar police station to collect Sucic and Seremet made Saslin wonder how the DP lawmakers knew what happened in the police station on Saturday evening.

“We do not possess such information. We do not know if they (DP MPs) have their sources and what they use them for,” Saslin said.

The HDZ MP said that for the sake of transparency, all aspects of the incident should be investigated.

Seremet is the head of the Homeland War Memorial Centre in Vukovar.