ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - Croatian Assistant Justice Minister Jaksa Muljacic confirmed on Friday evening that the former head of the Office for the Exchange of Detainees and Missing Persons of the defunct self-styled Croatian Republic
of Herceg-Bosna, Berislav Pusic, was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - Croatian Assistant Justice Minister Jaksa
Muljacic confirmed on Friday evening that the former head of the
Office for the Exchange of Detainees and Missing Persons of the
defunct self-styled Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Berislav Pusic,
was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.#L#
Muljacic told Hina the tribunal's Zagreb office delivered the sealed
indictment against Pusic to the Justice Ministry's Office for
Cooperation with International Courts in the afternoon.
Muljacic thus officially confirmed that Pusic was the sixth man
recently indicted by the tribunal, something the media recently
speculated on.
Muljacic said the ministry office had notified Pusic and that he
consented to voluntarily surrender to the tribunal.
Muljacic added Pusic would pick up the indictment tomorrow at noon,
accompanied by his attorneys. One of them, Marinko Skobic, said today
he was not familiar with the charges.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun confirmed that Interpol's
Zagreb office had been notified by the Justice Ministry this afternoon
that six indictees would board a flight for Amsterdam on Monday.
Besides Pusic, they are former Croat Defence Council (HVO) commanders
Slobodan Praljak and Milivoj Petkovic, the former prime minister of
Herzeg-Bosna, Jadranko Prlic, former Herzeg-Bosna Defence Minister
Bruno Stojic, and the HVO military police commander at the time of the
Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia, Valentin Coric. They have been
informed of the charges against them.
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