GROUP OF YU CITIZENS STOPPED IN ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSING ATTEMPT

( Editorial: --> 9922 ) ZAGREB, Sept 12 (Hina) - Border police at Bregana, a border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia, on Saturday stopped a six-member Muslim family from Kosovo, all Yugoslav citizens, from illegally leaving Croatia. The family was found with forged Croatian passports during a regular check of a Croatia Bus vehicle, Zagreb Police spokesman Josip Begovic told reporters. The passports, which were bought in Montenegro for DEM1,500 each, are from various parts of Croatia. The counterfeiters stuck new photographs over the data of the original owners. There was also an instance where new data was typed in. The magistrate in Samobor fined the Yugoslav citizens for attempting to illegally cross the border and banned them from entering Croatia for a two-year period, Begovic said, adding criminal proceedings were also initiated. (hina) ha 121239 MET sep 98