Buckinghamshire firm run by Croatian war crimes suspect Ivan Cermak

Ivan Cermak’s mind may not be focused right now on the affairs of Crodux Ltd, his British-registered business.

The company, which is involved in the oil industry in Croatia and has its registered office in Marlow Bottom, Buckinghamshire, recorded a turnover of just £24,000 in 2006.

Its lacklustre performance is attributed in documents lodged at Companies House to debtor issues. But Mr Cermak may also be distracted by his pending trial on allegations of war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

A former general in the Croatian Army, he is accused, along with two other men, of driving Serb civilians out of the Krajina region in 1995.

According to case summaries produced by the tribunal in The Hague, the men were