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Police question Suker
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Published 14/06/2005 at 12:52 GMT+1
Croatian legend Davor Suker has been questioned for more than three hours by police after his business partner was shot dead at the weekend. A Zagreb police spokesman confirmed that the World Cup 1998 best scorer was interviewed on Monday, following the mafia-style execution of Dino Pokrovac.
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Pokrovac was outside his home in Zagreb when he was shot dead around 0300 local time (2400 GMT) on Saturday, police said.
Suker and Pokrovac had jointly worked as soccer agents involved in transactions of players.
"The police investigation has so far included more than 200 people, many of them from the world of sport," the spokesman said, declining to give any more details.
Pokrovac was killed a year after his car was blown up. Local media said he was also a money-lender and had dozens of debtors in the former Yugoslav republic.
The police have so far given no indication of the possible motives for the murder, which has rocked Croatia's soccer scene.
"Everyone who has had any contact with Pokrovac will sooner or later be interrogated," another police official was quoted as saying in Jutarnji List daily newspaper.
National soccer coach Zlatko Kranjcar told the daily he also expected to be summoned by police.
Pokrovac's soccer management agency dealt with his son Niko's transfer to Hajduk Split from Dinamo Zagreb earlier this year.
Despite police efforts, a number of mafia-style killings on the streets of Zagreb have gone unresolved in the past decade.
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