Robert Matanić

Robert Matanić is a central figure in the court record surrounding the 23 October 2008 car-bomb assassination of Nacional publisher Ivo Pukanić and marketing director Niko Franjić in Zagreb. The profile is anchored to final Croatian court outcomes rather than later speculation about the still-unresolved ultimate ordering of the attack.

Role in the Pukanić case

Robert Matanić was found to have organized the operational group in Zagreb and coordinated preparations for the assassination.

Final sentence

The sentence displayed in the status bar is 35 years — final Pukanić assassination sentence. the archive treats this as the controlling final sentence for the Pukanić case and keeps earlier trial-stage figures only in legal history when useful.

What the courts established

Croatian proceedings established the roles of the convicted defendants in the assassination conspiracy and execution. The public record did not finally establish the identity of the ultimate person who commissioned the murder, so this profile does not convert theories about a higher-level organizer into fact.

Cross-links

This profile should connect directly to Ivo Pukanić, Niko Franjić, the assassination event, and the other defendants convicted in the same case. It also connects back to Sreten Jocić only with the important legal caveat that Jocić was finally acquitted in Serbia of organizing the Pukanić murder.

Editorial note

The case is unusually well documented across multiple jurisdictions. Sentence data in the status bar therefore uses final appellate outcomes, while disputed motive and commissioning theories remain attributed and separated from adjudicated facts.