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Serb agents raid homes in search for Mladic money

by reuters | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Monday, 13 September 2010 12:46 GMT

BELGRADE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Serbian security agents and police have searched several sites in Belgrade in an attempt to uncover details of the financing of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, an official said on Monday.

The raids, conducted on Friday, focused on four people and their homes plus a company office belonging to a former aide of the wartime Bosnian Serb commander, said a police official who did not want to be named. "We wanted to get more details about his (Mladic's) financing," the official told Reuters.

The arrest of Mladic, indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims and the siege of Sarajevo, is vital for unblocking Serbia's attempt to join the European Union.

Belgrade applied to join the EU last year but Brussels has not acted on the application, saying that good relations with neighbours including Kosovo, Serbia's former southern province, are necessary as well as Mladic's arrest.

Last week Serbia supported an EU-backed compromise United Nations resolution on Kosovo to promote cooperation, removing one obstacle to joining the 27-nation bloc. [ID:nN09223752]

Serbia also needs to arrest Goran Hadzic, political leader of Serbs in Croatia during the 1991-95 war there. Belgrade arrested and extradited former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008. (Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Adam Tanner/David Stamp)

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