In 2008 he was arrested in Austria and extradited to Croatia for trial on charges of embezzlement while he was responsible for state arms procurement during the Yugoslav Wars.
[1] In 1993 he worked as chauffeur for Ivan Čermak, at that time Assistant Minister of Defense and chief logistician of the Croatian Army.
[5] In March 2010 Zagorec was on trial for unlawfully renovating a summer house that belonged to Antun Šporer, the former vice-president of the Zagreb City Assembly.
[9] A scandal broke in 2010 when it was alleged that officers of the Austrian Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International had made unguaranteed loans ostensibly for real estate purchases in which large amounts had disappeared.
[10] In October 2011 it was reported that the bank had recovered almost €60 million of loans it had advanced to Zagorec for Croatian real-estate development projects.
[12] In March 2007, Zagorec was arrested in Vienna on an international warrant issued by Croatia in which he was accused of embezzlement when he was responsible for arms procurement.
[14] In September 2010, Croatian President Ivo Josipović confirmed that Zagorec and former generals Branimir Glavaš and Mirko Norac had been stripped of their army rank.