POLICE ARREST KOSTUNICA'S ADVISOR, HEAD OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - The Serbian police on Tuesday night arrested a former advisor to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, Rade Bulatovic, and a former head of Serbia and Montenegro's military intelligence, Aleksandar Tomic, the TV station B92 reported last night. #L# The arrests were made in a police operation which is part of an investigation into the assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic. Police sources said that before Djindjic was assassinated, Bulatovic had held meetings with the principal suspect in Djindjic's assassination, Milorad Lukovic Legija, a runaway former commander of a unit for special operations, the so- called Red Berets, as well as with another suspect, Dusan Spasojevic Siptar, who was killed in a police operation last week. According to police information, Aleksandar Tomic, who was recently replaced as head of Serbia and Montenegro's military intelligence, lied in his first statement to the police and has been brought in for questioning again, but it is unclear if he has been remanded in custody. In a statement he sent to the media on Tuesday Bulatovic said he would sue, before domestic or international courts, the media which reported that former Croatian rebel Serb leader Borislav Mikelic had arranged a meeting between him and Tomic and the leaders of the "Zemun Mobster Clan". (hina) rml