GERMAN POLICE ARREST MEMBER OF ZAGREB UNDERGROUND

ZAGREB, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Zagreb Interpol Office on Monday received an official message from the German Interpol saying that on Friday, February 4, it had arrested Zoran Petrovic Ivica in the Wiesbaden area, on the basis of an international arrest warrant, the Croatian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Petrovic is suspected of being a member of a criminal organisation and was reported along with another 10 persons for the criminal act of conspiracy. The Interior Ministry said it would request that the Justice Ministry seek the hand-over of Petrovic due to suspicion of entering conspiracy with the aim of carrying out a criminal act and of murdering Niko Mioc on October 12, 1990. The Interior Ministry Crime Police has been in contact with police forces of several European countries with the aim of arresting another member of the Zagreb underground, Zoran Pripuz. An international arrest warrant has been issued for Pripuz due to suspicion that he committed a criminal act of conspiracy. At the end of last year the Croatian police arrested ten persons suspected of joining in a criminal organisation with the aim of committing the gravest criminal acts. (hina) rml