A suspended Osijek County Court judge, Zvonko Vekic, and a friend of his, Natasa Sekulic, who were both arrested in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek on Wednesday morning, were taken to Zagreb to be interrogated on money laundering charges.

After the interrogation, the anti corruption office USKOK will decide whether or not to demand that both be remanded in custody.

After he was previously arrested in June this year, Judge Vekic was placed in detention. In June, Vekic was arrested along with two other judges from the same court, Anto Kvesic and Darko Kruslin, after the convicted former head of Dinamo Zagreb Football Club, Zdravko Mamic, accused them of taking €400,000 in bribes. The three judges were then subjected to disciplinary action, and the County Court president demanded that they be permanently relieved of their duties.

Spokesman for the Osijek County Court, Miroslav Rozac, said he had no information regarding the case and that the court learnt about the investigation into Vekic from the media.

Rozac also said that until the investigation into the three judges was completed, they would be receiving 50 percent of their pay.

He declined to comment on Zdravko Mamic’s latest post on Facebook in which he said that Vekic’s arrest had to do with the laundering of money he had given to the judges.

Earlier today, USKOK confirmed that the arrests had been made on suspicion of money laundering “in conjunction with criminal offences against official duty which are the subject of an ongoing investigation.”