ICTY: THERE IS NO INDICTMENT AGAINST ANDABAK AND KOSTROMAN

ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Sept 13 (Hina) - No indictment has been issued by the ICTY against two Croatian Army high-ranking officers - General Ivan Andabak and Brigadier Ignac Kostroman - who were arrested on Tuesday, a spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) told the France Presse on Wednesday. The spokesman for the ICTY Prosecution, Paul Risley, told Hina that he would offer more information about their apprehension in the course of the day. There are no indictments against those two men. They were apprehended so that they could be interviewed, Risley was cited by the France Presse as saying. He confirmed that their arrests were conducted in compliance with the ICTY's request. General Ivan Andabak, arrested in the Croatian town of Karlovac on Tuesday, was a close associate to Mladen Naletilic Tuta, a Bosnian Croat awaiting trial before the ICTY for atrocities he allegedly committed in the Mostar area. Andabak was a deputy commander of Tuta's Convicts' Battalion. The name of Ivan Andabak was cited by the Croatian media last year when Naletilic Tuta was in the Zagreb prison hospital and when Andabak was allegedly planning to carry out with 50 former members of the Convicts' Battalion Naletilic's abduction from the infirmary. Brigadier Ignac Kostroman, apprehended in the Croatian town of Knin yesterday, used to be in charge of the propaganda and political activities in the war-time (Bosnian Croat) Herzeg-Bosnian structures during the Croat-Moslem conflict. Kostroman was a close aide to Dario Kordic, an ICTY indictee. (hina) ms