Crime boss held in police custody

Crime boss Sreten Jocić was held overnight at Belgrade police HQ, but not questioned over his suspected involvement in the murder of a Croatian journalist.

Izvor: B92

Tuesday, 28.04.2009.

10:00

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Crime boss Sreten Jocic was held overnight at Belgrade police HQ, but not questioned over his suspected involvement in the murder of a Croatian journalist. His lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said that Jocic did not want to answer any police questions, nor would be doing so until a decision on an appeal against his detention in custody was taken. Crime boss held in police custody Tomanovic claims that an arrest warrant must be issued two hours before any actual arrest can be made. He said that his client would first wait for a decision on the outcome of the appeal before talking to police about the murder of Ivo Pukanic. This decision is expected to be taken today. Tomanovic said that Jocic had been arrested yesterday at 14:30 and that the decision to remand him in custody had not been taken until 21:00. He added that under Serbian law, Jocic could not be extradited to Croatia. “Under our laws, even though the Constitution abolished that prohibition, he cannot be extradited to Croatia. However, if it does have anything to do with events in Croatia, I think that our prosecution will then act accordingly on claims that one of its citizens has committed a crime abroad, and begin that kind of process, because he cannot be taken into custody at any country’s request or insistence,” the lawyer said. Croatian police spokesperson Krunoslav Borovec said that Jocic’s arrest was a result of cooperation between the Serbian and Croatian police and prosecution. Before Jocic was transferred to the police station in Belgrade, police searched the home he has been living in for five hours, under very heavy security. Jocic was present during the search in what used to be the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic’s house. Sreten Jocic (Tanjug archive)

Crime boss held in police custody

Tomanović claims that an arrest warrant must be issued two hours before any actual arrest can be made. He said that his client would first wait for a decision on the outcome of the appeal before talking to police about the murder of Ivo Pukanić. This decision is expected to be taken today.

Tomanović said that Jocić had been arrested yesterday at 14:30 and that the decision to remand him in custody had not been taken until 21:00. He added that under Serbian law, Jocić could not be extradited to Croatia.

“Under our laws, even though the Constitution abolished that prohibition, he cannot be extradited to Croatia. However, if it does have anything to do with events in Croatia, I think that our prosecution will then act accordingly on claims that one of its citizens has committed a crime abroad, and begin that kind of process, because he cannot be taken into custody at any country’s request or insistence,” the lawyer said.

Croatian police spokesperson Krunoslav Borovec said that Jocić’s arrest was a result of cooperation between the Serbian and Croatian police and prosecution.

Before Jocić was transferred to the police station in Belgrade, police searched the home he has been living in for five hours, under very heavy security. Jocić was present during the search in what used to be the late Serbian President Slobodan Milošević’s house.

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