INTERIOR MINISTER FORMS TEAM OF EXPERTS TO WORK ON DEDIC'S MURDER

ZAGREB, July 8 (Hina) - The Croatian Interior Ministry has strong reservations toward the anonymous phone call made to a Zagreb daily, in which the caller claimed responsibility for the murder of Ibrahim Dedic, Interior Minister Ivan Penic told reporters on Thursday. Dedic, owner of Promdei bank, was killed this last Saturday in front of the door to the building he lived in in Zagreb. "The Interior Ministry has strong reservations, although it (the phone call) can mean something and be of help", Penic told reporters following the end of the open part of today's Government session. In the phone conversation with "Jutarnji list" daily, the anonymous caller said the call was being made on behalf of the organisation "Mudzahedin Zenica", adding it had killed Dedic "because he has robbed the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina". "It is known that Promdei bank owns large funds to the National Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina", Penic said, reiterating the Ministry had reservations toward the call. Penic also commented on a statement by the head of the Muslim religious community in Croatia and Slovenia, Sefko Omerbasic, made during yesterday's funeral ceremony at Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery, when Omerbasic said, according to "Jutarnji list", that police had failed to protect Dedic. The Ministry paid more attention to Dedic and his safety than to any other average citizen of Croatia, but he did not want the cooperation offered by the Ministry, said Penic. Penic said he had appointed a team of prominent experts, called "Jarun", to work on Dedic's murder. (hina) rml ,