SDA TRUMPS UP CHARGES AGAINST ME - ABDIC

ZAGREB, Jan 5 (Hina) - "Charges against me are trumped-up according to the well-established rules of the (Moslem) Party of the Democratic Action (SDA) and its secret police 'AID', in order to frighten the people and unable a political offensive of the Democratic People's Community of Bosnia-Herzegovina (DNZ), Fikret Abdic, the DNZ party President and a former Bosnian Presidency member, told Croatian Television on Monday night. The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has given its consent to Bosnian judicial bodies to criminally pursue Abdic, a Bosnian official said on Monday. Abdic told the Croatian TV political programme "Motrista" that he had not been officially notified of legal proceedings against him. The controversial politician from western Bosnia accused Bosnian state officials of trying to prevent him from playing a significant role in "improving the economic situation and progress in Bosnia- Herzegovina" by involving the Hague Tribunal in his case. "The AID (Agency for Information and Documents) is preparing all indictments for the Hague Tribunal, and there is a chosen group within the AID that is working on fabricating charges against me," Abdic told the Croatian TV. He claimed that the AID consisted of Moslems who used to be in the State Security Service of the former Yugoslavia and who were later taken by the SDA for its secret police to prepare indictments for the ICTY. According to Monday's statement by the Bosnian official, Adamir Jerkovic, the ICTY prosecutor concluded that the submitted evidence indicated the existence of founded suspicion that Fikret Abdic had seriously violated regulations of international law through inhumane treatment of civilians and prisoners of war and through forceful mobilisation (in western Bosnia). The evidence against Abdic was submitted to the Hague Tribunal in line with rules established at a Rome conference in 1996. (hina) ms