ZAGREB ACCORDING TO ICTY'S ORDER ZAGREB, April 6 (Hina) - Pursuant to an international warrant for the arrest, issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), I.R. (aged 45) was arrested, Croatia's
interior ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
ZAGREB, April 6 (Hina) - Pursuant to an international warrant for
the arrest, issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY), I.R. (aged 45) was arrested, Croatia's
interior ministry said in a statement on Sunday. #L#
During his apprehension I.R. offered nor resistance, and he was
brought in the investigating centre of the Zagreb County Court,
read the brief statement, signed by the ministry's spokeswoman,
Zinka Bardic.
An investigating judge of the County Court confirmed today that on
Saturday night I.R., a Croatian national, had been apprehended and
taken to the investigating centre. The judge, Boris Ivancic
declined to give any more details on the apprehension.
Lawyer Zeljko Olujic told Hina that his client Ivica Rajic, born in
Kiseljak, Bosnia-Herzegovina, had been nabbed in Zagreb on
Saturday according to the ICTY's order and that he was taken in the
county court's investigating centre.
"I am not acquainted with details, but I suppose that Rajic is
indicted by the Hague-based tribunal for alleged crimes in Stupni
Dol," Olujic said.
He added that pursuant to Croatia's law on cooperation with the
tribunal, the investigating judge ordered a three-month detention
for Rajic during which he should be extradited to the Hague-based UN
court.
Lawyer Olujic announced that he would appeal against the decision
on the custody before a panel of judges of the County Court.
According to him, Rajic, while being questioned by the
investigating judge, dismissed all charges and said he was proud of
everything he had done as a member of the Croatian Defence Council
(HVO), i.e. the Bosnian Croat troops.
"At the moment I do not know whether the defence will agree with his
hand-over or whether we shall conduct the legal battle here in
Croatia," Olujic said adding that Rajic's another defence counsel
is a Mostar attorney, Josip Muselinovic.
The atrocities in the Stupni Dol village in central Bosnia were
perpetrated in 1993 during the Croat-Muslim conflict.
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