SARAJEVO POLICE ARREST SERB WAR CRIMINAL SUSPECT

( Editorial: --> 1497 ) SARAJEVO, Mar 22 (Hina) - Sarajevo police Saturday arrested Milomir Tepes, a Bosnian Serb suspected of war crimes. According to a statement the Bosnian Ministry of Interior Affairs issued Sunday, the 29-year-old Tepes was arrested yesterday on the territory of the Croat-Muslim Federation on the basis of a warrant the Sarajevo Canton Court issued in agreement with the international war crimes tribunal. Immediately after the arrest, Tepes was surrendered to the Canton Court, the statement said, adding the International Police Task Force had been notified about the matter. Tepes was criminally charged three years ago by the then Security Services Centre in Sarajevo. He was suspected of committing several war crimes in Pale and Ustikolina as a member of a paramilitary unit. Tepes is not on the list of suspected war criminals whose arrest has been ordered by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. According to Sunday media reports, the arrest took place early Saturday morning and was the result of a long-planned Sarajevo police action. (hina) ha 221700 MET mar 98