He decided to contact leaders of the OHR in Sarajevo with the request for assistance to Neven Tomic. After Tomic warned in a conversation with the representative of the foundation Konrad Adenauer, Caroline Hornstein, that the campaign led against him by the hardliners in the HDZ could totally eliminate him from the political scene even before the HDZ congress, Munroe contacted Petritsch's deputy Mathias Sonn asking for help. "Tomic told Caroline that he still wants to give his best for the city and to lead Croats from the dead end street. Even if the 'congress' is not held in October, according to Tomic it is possible that moderates, such as Ljubic brothers, will leave the party and found a new party. They would not join Zubak, even less likely Prlic. To join the New Croatian Initiative [NHI, led by Kresimir Zubak, a former HDZ politician] is a kiss of political death in Hercegovina," Munroe wrote in his letter to Mathias Sonn.
According to Munroe, Tomic said that he needed the assistance of the international community in order to secure any sort of political future for himself. According to Munroe, by "assistance" Tomic implied extremely politically damaging discoveries about hardliners that would be the result of the work of the temporary administration of the Hercegovacka Bank such as preferential loans, illegal privatization or participation in money laundering.
"This should be published before the congress if we want to help him. If the international community secures that type of assistance then the moderates could step forward. Caroline and I agreed that if the crimes in which Franciscans and, even better, [Catholic] bishop Peric could be publicized, then ordinary Croats could at least begin to understand the nature of the autonomy and give support to those who oppose it," writes the chief of the Mostar office of the OHR in his letter to Mathias Sonn. Hrvatska Rijec has a copy of that letter.
He proposes that the activities on the identification of incriminating material that can be used "to accuse the worst law violators" in the investigation about the Hercegovacka Bank be speeded up.
"The best course of action would be to use our usual methods and leak accusations of our usual suspects even before the actual incriminating material is found. In my opinion, this would be way more effective than anything Carla del Ponte may provide," Munroe suggests.
He allegedly discussed details of this plan with Tomic on September 3 at a seminar organized by the school of management in Bled [in Slovenia] and the British company BAE Systems.
"Requests of assistance received by the international community from the local politicians are usually excuses for their own inactivity or failures. But this case is different. This is the right moment to use the findings that have begun to appear in the investigation related to the Hercegovacka Bank operation. We could also use this set of circumstances to increase the pressure on the government in Croatia, The Privredna Bank in Zagreb and its Italian owners to cooperate more effectively with the temporary administration," Colin Munroe states at the end of his letter, trying to convince Mathias Sonn to support his plan.