ZAGREB, Sept 13 (Hina) - The attorney of Croatian Army General Ivan Andabak, arrested on Tuesday, told Hina on Wednesday he still did not know his client's whereabouts, or who arrested him. Attorney Kresimir Krsnik reiterated he had
contacted many sources requesting information on his client's arrest, but that he still had not been told where his client was and what he was charged with. Krsnik said he had received unofficial information to the effect that Andabak was "somewhere in the Rijeka region," and that allegedly he did not want an attorney. "Soon 24 hours will have passed since the arrest and then we will know everything," the attorney said. According to yesterday's media reports, Andabak, a Croatian Army officer and one-time general with HVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina's Croat Defence Council, was arrested in Karlovac, 50km south-west of Zagreb. Defence Minister Jozo Rados confirmed the
ZAGREB, Sept 13 (Hina) - The attorney of Croatian Army General Ivan
Andabak, arrested on Tuesday, told Hina on Wednesday he still did
not know his client's whereabouts, or who arrested him.
Attorney Kresimir Krsnik reiterated he had contacted many sources
requesting information on his client's arrest, but that he still
had not been told where his client was and what he was charged with.
Krsnik said he had received unofficial information to the effect
that Andabak was "somewhere in the Rijeka region," and that
allegedly he did not want an attorney.
"Soon 24 hours will have passed since the arrest and then we will
know everything," the attorney said.
According to yesterday's media reports, Andabak, a Croatian Army
officer and one-time general with HVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina's Croat
Defence Council, was arrested in Karlovac, 50km south-west of
Zagreb.
Defence Minister Jozo Rados confirmed the arrest, saying it was
related to a request from the war crimes tribunal in The Hague and
not to last month's assassination in Gospic, central Croatia, of
tribunal witness Milan Levar.
A spokesman for the tribunal's Prosecutor's Office, Paul Risley,
said today Andabak had not been indicted, but apprehended for
interrogation.
Media are speculating that Andabak, formerly a close associate of
Hague indictee Mladen Naletilic Tuta in HVO's so called Convicts'
Battalion, is suspected of demolishing a medieval bridge in the
southern Bosnian town of Mostar during last decade's Croat-Muslim
conflict.
Media are also speculating about Andabak's involvement in the
August 1992 assassination of Blaz Kraljevic, a general with former
Croatian defence unit HOS, and last year's assassination of Jozo
Leutar, deputy interior minister in Bosnia's Croat-Muslim
federation.
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