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ZAGREB - Croatia is considering whether to extradite a Bosnian Croat war crimes suspect to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague in order to avoid sanctions, the local daily newspaper Jutarnji List reported on Sunday.
It quoted an unnamed government source as saying the Zagreb county court would decide on Monday on handing over Mladen "Tuta" Naletilic, who has been in its custody since 1997, for trial before the international war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
Croatia has been under international pressure to extradite Naletilic and the war crimes tribunal president, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, formally reported Zagreb to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. The Council could take punitive steps such as trade sanctions.
No one was immediately available to comment officially on the newspaper report.
If true, it represents a reversal of Croatia's stance that it could not extradite Naletilic because of his severe heart condition. The paramilitary leader stands charged with organising an ethnic cleansing campaign of Moslems in southern Bosnia in 1993.