SAKIC STILL IN ZAGREB, LIKELY TO BE SOON TRANSFERRED TO LEPOGLAVA

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - A former commander of the World War II concentration camp of Jasenovac, Dinko Sakic, has not yet been transferred from a Zagreb detention centre into the prison of Lepoglava (northern Croatia) to serve his 20-year-long sentence, sources at the Croatian Justice Ministry reported on Tuesday. The exact date of his transfer has not been determined yet, although the medical examination of his mental and physical condition at the infirmary of the Zagreb detention centre has been finished. Sakic's defence lawyer, Ivan Kern, expects that his defendant will be transferred later this week upon the expiry of a 30-day time-term during which convicts undergo medical check-ups before they are taken to jails to serve their sentences. Kern also said on Tuesday that he yesterday lodged an appeal against this case with the Constitutional Court, maintaining that Sakic was tried and sentenced for something that had not been cited in the request for his extradition from Argentina. According to Kern, this is a violation of the extradition act. In June 1998 Sakic was extradited from Argentina where he had lived since the end of WW II. In October 1999, the Zagreb County Court found him guilty and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for war crimes he committed against civilian population while he was a commander of the Ustashi concentration camp in Jasenovac. (hina) sb ms