Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader enters the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS HEADSHOT) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader enters the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikolasolic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader enters the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Judge Ivan Turudic, who presides of a panel of judges trying former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, as Sanader enters a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS HEADSHOT) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS HEADSHOT) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader enters the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader enters the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, sits in the main courtroom at the Zagreb county court, October 28, 2011, to enter a plea in the first corruption trial against him. Sanader is charged with taking a bribe in 1995, when he was deputy foreign minister, to facilitate a loan by Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria to Croatia. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS HEADSHOT) 

Austrian regional parliamentary committee members prepare before former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader testifies via video link from Salzburg on his ties to Hypo Alpe Adria bank in Klagenfurt's Land Court December 22, 2010. Sanader was arrested in Austria on December 10 on a Croatian arrest warrant following a corruption investigation in Zagreb. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader testifies via video link from Salzburg before an Austrian regional parliamentary committee on his ties to Hypo Alpe Adria bank in Klagenfurt's Land Court December 22, 2010. Sanader was arrested in Austria on December 10 on a Croatian arrest warrant following a corruption investigation in Zagreb. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader (R) testifies via video link from Salzburg before an Austrian regional parliamentary committee on his ties to Hypo Alpe Adria bank in Klagenfurt's Land Court December 22, 2010. Sanader was arrested in Austria on December 10 on a Croatian arrest warrant following a corruption investigation in Zagreb. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS BUSINESS) 

The spokeswoman of the department of public prosecution, Barbara Feichtinger addresses the media during a press conference concerning the imprisonment of former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in Salzburg December 16, 2010. Sanader, wanted in connection with an anti-corruption investigation, was arrested on a highway in Austria on Friday, December 10. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Austrian regional parliamentary committee members listen as former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader testifies via video link from Salzburg on his ties to Hypo Alpe Adria bank in Klagenfurt's Land Court December 22, 2010. Sanader was arrested in Austria on December 10 on a Croatian arrest warrant following a corruption investigation in Zagreb. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is attended by a policemen as he is guided into a Salzburg courtyard December 10, 2010. Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, wanted in connection with an anti-corruption investigation, was arrested on a highway in Austria on Friday, Vienna's federal crime office said.
Sanader left Croatia on Thursday shortly before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution. REUTERS/REUTERS TV (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is attended by a policemen as he is guided into a Salzburg courtyard December 10, 2010. Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, wanted in connection with an anti-corruption investigation, was arrested on a highway in Austria on Friday, Vienna's federal crime office said.
Sanader left Croatia on Thursday shortly before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution. REUTERS/REUTERS TV (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader arrives to testify in Croatia's State Parliament in Zagreb October 12, 2010. Sanader has been summoned to give his testimony on the process of the sale of oil group INA, whose biggest shareholder is now Hungary's MOL. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: POLITICS) 

Former Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader regatrds 13th Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Party assembly in Zagreb on July 04, 2009. Sanader, who led his former Yugoslav republic into NATO and pressed for European Union membership, resigned on Wednesday and said he was quitting politics. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA POLITICS) 

Former Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader addresses 13th Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Party assembly in Zagreb on July 4, 2009. Sanader, who led his former Yugoslav republic into NATO and pressed for European Union membership, resigned on Wednesday and said he was quitting politics. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA POLITICS) 

Former Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader gestures at the13th Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Party assembly in Zagreb on July 04, 2009. Sanader, who led his former Yugoslav republic into NATO and pressed for European Union membership, resigned on Wednesday and said he was quitting politics. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA POLITICS)