Ivo Pukanić

Berislav Jelinic, editor-in-chief of Nacional and former colleague of Nacional's founder and editor Ivo Pukanic, expressed deep dissatisfaction with a verdict of a Belgrade court on Monday on Pukanic's killing.

The former editor was killed along with a co-worker, Niko Franjic, by a car bomb in Zagreb in October 2008.

BELGRADE - The Special Court in Belgrade acquitted on Wednesday Sreten Jocic of of the charges of murder involvement in the murder of owner of Croatian newspaper Nacional Ivo Pukanic.

Jocić, accused of organizing murder of journalist, acquitted

BELGRADE -- The Special Court in Belgrade has acquitted Sreten Jocić of the charge that he organized the murder of Croatian journalist and publisher Ivo Pukanić.

Pukanić's associate Niko Franjić also died when a device planted near Pukanić's car exploded, in October 2008.