"Mandic and his associates in and outside politics did everything they could to strip the bank's assets and not pay its depositors, or its employees," Ashdown said at the time."There were also transactions that open up concerns that some funds may have been passed into war criminals' hands," he added.
"Mandić i njegovi suradnici unutar i izvan politike učinili su sve što su mogli kako bi ogolili imovinu banke i izbjegli isplate svojih štediša ili zaposlenika", kazao je tada Ashdown. "Postojale su također transakcije koje bude sumnju kako su neke sredstva možda bila prebačena u ruke ratnih zločinaca", dodao je.