MOSTAR, Jan 26(Hina) - The lawyer representing Ante Jelavic, former leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Bosnia-Herzegovina and former member of the country's collective presidency, on Monday lodged an appeal against a
court ruling ordering that his client be held in custody for a month.
MOSTAR, Jan 26(Hina) - The lawyer representing Ante Jelavic, former
leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Bosnia-Herzegovina
and former member of the country's collective presidency, on Monday
lodged an appeal against a court ruling ordering that his client be
held in custody for a month.#L#
Defence attorney Josip Muselimovic said he had visited Jelavic in the
Kula prison, which is situated in a part of Sarajevo belonging to the
Bosnian Serb entity known as Republika Srpska.
"Jelavic cannot accept the fact that as a Croatian Defence Council
(HVO) general and a Croatian Army (HV) major general he was arrested
and put in prison in Republika Srpska, so he ordered me to send
letters to four relevant addresses," the lawyer said.
Muselimovic said he would write to the president of the HDZ and prime
minister of Croatia, Ivo Sanader, the president of the HDZ BH, Barisa
Colak, the Bosnian presidency, and Croatian president Stjepan Mesic.
Jelavic was arrested in a joint operation by Bosnian Federation police
and NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops on January 23 on
suspicion that he had abused his position in the Hercegovacka Banka
bank.
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