REQUEST FOR NADA SAKIC'S EXTRADITION HANDED OVER TO ARGENTINA

( Editorial: --> 0901 ) BUENOS AIRES, July 31 (Hina) - Croatia's charge d'affaires to Argentina, Ivo Radovic, on Thursday night handed the Argentine Foreign Ministry a request for the extradition of Nada (Esperanza) Tambic de Bilanovic Sakic to Croatia, according to an announcement by the Croatian Embassy in Buenos Aires. In accordance with the South American country's regulations the Argentina Foreign Ministry will pass on the extradition request to the public prosecutor, the embassy said. As the case was with her husband Dinko, Sakic's file will then be passed on to judge Hernan Bernasconi in the town of Dolores in the Province of Buenos Aires. Mr Sakic, the former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II, was extradited to Croatia in mid-June and an investigation against him is currently underway at the Zagreb County Court. His wife is accused of torturing and inhumanely treating civilians and using intimidation and terror as an official at the Stara Gradiska concentration camp between later 1942 and early 1945. (Hina) mbr 311155 MET jul 98