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Jan 01, 1943 Osijek, Osijek Baranja County, Croatia 81 years old
Croatian politician
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About Vladimir Eks
- Vladimir Šeks (born 1 January 1943) is a Croatian lawyer and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) politician.
- He has been a representative in the Croatian Parliament since the nation's independence, and has held the posts of the Speaker of the Parliament as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the Government. He graduated from the Law Faculty in Zagreb in 1966.
- From 1972–81 he worked as a lawyer until his arrest for "anti-state actions" against communist Yugoslavia.
- He served 13 months in the prison at Stara Gradiška.
- Later, he was an attorney for dissidents, including the "Belgrade Six" (1984–85).In 1990, Šeks was one of the founders of the Osijek branch of the Croatian Democratic Union.
- In 1991, he was one of the main drafters of the Constitution of Croatia.
- In 1992, he was named the State Prosecutor of the Republic of Croatia.
- He was a deputy of the President of the Government of Croatia under Hrvoje Šarinic and Nikica Valentic from 1992–95.
- Šeks served as the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 22 December 2003 until 11 January 2008.His 25-year-old son Domagoj, was found dead in Goa, India on 26 February 2005 after he was reported missing by friends a day earlier.
- The exact circumstances of his death were never determined.In 2009, he testified in the Branimir Glavaš trial as a witness for the defence, and his testimony was later dismissed by the presiding judge as "completely implausible", and the court rendered a guilty verdict.In 2010, Amnesty International issued a statement that Šeks should be prosecuted based upon testimony from the Glavaš trial.In January 2011 the Ministry of Justice responded to the AI report saying their conclusions were "arbitrary and wrong" in the case of Šeks.In 1997, Šeks declined to prosecute Miro Bajramovic (a former police officer), Nebojša Hodak, Munib Suljic, and Igor Mikola, four members of the "Autumn Rains" unit of Tomislav Mercep during the Yugoslav wars.
- The men began running an elaborate detention center in Poljana Pakracka, southeast of Zagreb, where prisoners were tortured with electric shocks or doused with gasoline and burned alive.
- Bajramovic said nearly all the prisoners were executed and buried in mass graves.
- Some of the men, including Bajramovic, were later indicted and tried by local courts, but not the ICTY.
- Bajramovic, who stated that his unit had killed 280 people in Poljana Pakracka and between 90 and 110 in Gospic, received a sentence of 12 years in prison.
