UN OFFICIAL SAYS ENOUGH EVIDENCE CHARGES BOSNIAN CROAT GENERAL

SARAJEVO, Sept 21 (Hina) - The Interior Ministry of Bosnia- Herzegovina's Croat-Muslim federation has gathered enough evidence to arrest and press charges against four persons suspected of the Jozo Leutar assassination, a UN official was quoted in a Sarajevo daily as saying. The head of the United Nations Mission to BH Jacques Klein told Thursday's Oslobodjenje that not only Ivan Andabak, but Dominik Ilijasevic, Zoran Basic, and Zeljko Cosic, recently arrested in BH, were also suspects in the assassination of the federation's deputy interior minister, Jozo Leutar. They are the prime suspects and were arrested on hard evidence, Klein said, adding the final say lay with the judiciary. The UN official expects that those who obstructed the Leutar investigation will be clearly identified during court proceedings as well. Responding to accusations levelled at him by BH's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Klein said the latest police actions had not been directed against the HDZ but criminals and murderers of whom, he asserted, some were within the HDZ. Klein voiced hope the HDZ leadership would distance itself from such people because it bore no relation to patriotism whatsoever. He reminded the entire proceeding was directed at finding the assassins of a Bosnian Croat official. Leutar, the deputy interior minister of one of BH's two entities, the Croat-Muslim federation, was killed last year in a car-bomb blast in the capital Sarajevo. The Interpol branch in BH issued an international arrest warrant against the aforementioned Andabak, a general with BH's Croat Defence Council. The Croatian Interior Ministry claims the warrant did not contain enough elements to arrest Andabak in connection with the Leutar case. He was arrested in Croatia last week on charges of participating in the smuggling of more than 600kg of cocaine. (hina) ha jn