Ivan Milas
| Ivan Milas | |
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| 3rd Minister of Justice of Croatia | |
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In office 6 June 1992 – 12 August 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Franjo Gregurić |
| Preceded by | Bosiljko Mišetić |
| Succeeded by | Ivica Crnić |
| Keeper of the State Seal | |
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In office 6 May 1995 – 1 February 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Post created |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 October 1939 Zmijavci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | 29 July 2011 (aged 71) Zmijavci, Croatia |
| Political party | Croatian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Ivan Milas (18 October 1939 – 29 July 2011) was a Croatian lawyer and politician.
Milas was born in the village of Zmijavci near Imotski in Zagora, and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.
Milas was close to Marko Veselica and was active in the Croatian Spring in the early 1970s. In 1972, the authorities of communist Yugoslavia charged Milas with "actions against the state", arrested and spent six months in jail awaiting trial. He was released to prepare his defense, and subsequently fled to Austria where he received the status of a refugee. Yugoslavia sought his apprehension, which Austrian courts denied. He was tried in absentia in Yugoslavia and received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
In 1988 Milas met the Croatian historian and politician Franjo Tuđman and in August 1989 joined his newly formed Croatian Democratic Union. Milas received a passport to return to Croatia in February 1990 and was elected to the Croatian Parliament in its first democratic elections.
During the first phase of the Croatian War of Independence between the summer of 1991 and the spring of 1992, Milas served as the Deputy Minister of Defence and Deputy Minister of Justice.
Milas was reelected in the 1992 election, and served as the Minister of Justice from June 6 to August 12, 1992 and was later vice-president in the Croatian Government, under Hrvoje Šarinić.
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