ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - The former head of the Office for the Exchange of Detainees and Missing Persons of the defunct self-styled Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Berislav Pusic, has said he knows nothing about an indictment
reportedly issued against him by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - The former head of the Office for the Exchange
of Detainees and Missing Persons of the defunct self-styled Croatian
Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Berislav Pusic, has said he knows nothing
about an indictment reportedly issued against him by the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.#L#
"I have no knowledge of an indictment having been issued against me
and I consider media reports of me being a sixth indictee from
Herceg-Bosna as unfounded speculation," Pusic told Hina in a telephone
interview on Friday.
He confirmed press articles that he had recently undergone spine
surgery in Ljubljana, but dismissed allegations that after the
operation he disappeared without trace.
"I am in Zagreb at the moment and can be reached here. It is a lie
that I am on the run," said Pusic, who otherwise resides in Split.
Pusic said he had not been contacted by government officials, nor had
he been invited to come to the Justice Ministry, as was the case with
five Bosnian Croat wartime leaders indicted on Wednesday.
"I was not part of the top political and military structure of
Herceg-Bosna. I was involved with humanitarian work and I do not know
on what grounds I can be indicted at all," Pusic said. "I am clean,
but if I am called to account for something, I am ready. I am not
afraid of the Hague tribunal," he added.
(Hina) vm