"It is not possible to respect a court which pronounces such a verdict, or a court which confirms it. And I don't respect it. I intend to abide by the verdict, as I respect the Slovenian state," said Janez Janša.

"We have been advised of the banal fact which brought to a shocking finding. The Finnish case file includes 7,000 sheets more," said the president of the SDS party Janez Janša, convicted in the Patria case, at the press conference where they presented the findings of new infringements of the rules of law and constitutionality in the Patria case.

The Finnish case file includes a number of documents connected with Slovenia which were not included in the Slovenian case file. The Slovenian prosecutors have chosen documents to be included into the Slovenian case file selectively, warned Janša, and added that the competent authorities must enter into a case file all the documents, regardless of their incriminating or exonerating contents for the defendants.

"The state bodies are not allowed to select only what they find suitable. It is negation of the right to »equal weapons«," emphasized Janša.

He also listed some memorandums, among those also a document which would supposedly prove that the role of the accused Krkovič was not such as stated in the indictment proposal.

Janša's lawyer Franci Matoz stressed that the right to a fair trial was violated. The examination of the evidence in Finland supposedly proved this violation as well.

He said that no evidence exist, or has ever existed, against Janša, but among the proof submitted by the prosecution is missing the finding that Rotis was not selected on September 1, 2005, but the selection procedure had continued for another half a year, and that the prosecution should have included this proof in the case file. Janša and his lawyer intend to complete the petition for protection of legality at the Supreme Court.

Jože Hribernik, the lawyer of the convicted Tone Krkovič, mentioned that among the additional documents discovered in Finland a memorandum was found stating that Tone Krkovič was not a representative of MORS, that he had no authorization and was only a friend of Ivan Črnkovič, the owner of Rotisa."The verdict would have fallen had this memorandum been introduced. I realized that the process was unfair," said Hribernik.

Janša will go to Dob
Janša said that in 1988 he didn't report to Dob voluntarily, but this time he intends to respect the summons out of the respect for the legal state, if not for the verdict.

"This is a different situation, as then we had the state we Slovenians did not consider ours, and I had no respect for it. Now we have our state, such as it is. I respect the state, in contrast to those who pronounced this verdict in the name of the people," said Janša and continued that that was the reason he intended to respond to the summons to serve his sentence.

Janša must report to the Dob prison on Friday, June 20.