"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 saradnici unutar i izvan politike učinili su sve što su mogli da ogole imovinu banke i ne plate svojim štedišama ili zaposlenima», rekao je tada Ešdaun. «Takođe je bilo transakcija koje bude sumnju da su neka sredstva možda prebačena u ruke ratnih zločinaca», dodao je on.