Police end search of Mladić house in Belgrade

Serbian police (MUP) ended an operation started this morning, where they searched the home of Ratko Mladic in the Belgrade municipality of Banovo Brdo. The search for the former military leader of Bosnia's Serbs and Hague Tribunal began early on Tuesday with about ten officers from MUP's special units seen in front of the house. Police end search of Mladic house in Belgrade Police said that they confiscated "a number of movable objects and a small sum of money". Neighbors said that his son Darko Mladic was inside the building. The last publicized operation launched as part of the search for Mladic took place in October of last year, near Novi Sad, with the President of the National Council for Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajic stating at the time that a “widespread search was implemented.” In Bosnia, EUFOR conducted its own search on the request from the Hague Tribunal in Bjeljina in May 2009, and the last time Mladic’s home in Banovo Brdo was searched was in December 2008, when police spent eight hours there. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that the search of the location was part of the regular activities of the Action Team for the location and arrest of remaining Hague indictees. “Search is underway in certain buildings and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor will inform the public about that. The search is part of the regular activities which have been carried out at different locations with the aim to find evidence that might help locate the ones that have been charged with the Hague Tribunal,” Dacic told journalists during his visit to the Police Academy. Asked if state bodies were now closer to locating Mladic, Dacic answered that he would be able to answer that question "only once the search had been proved as fruitful", according to Tanjug. Special police officers in Banovo Brdo this morning (Beta) "Cassettes, discs, organizers and money confiscated" Police started their operation around 06:00 CET on Tuesday, lawyer Svetozar Vujacic, who is at the location, told Tanjug. According to Vujacic, police confiscated "a number of CDs, cassettes and organizer books, as well as a certain amount of money, during the search conducted in the presence of two witnesses". "I can categorically state that the amount of confiscated money is many times less than the figure circulated in the media (EUR 70,000)," Vujacic remarked. Some reports today said that "EUR 70,000 was found in the apartment of J. Hadzi Djokica, an urologist and SANU member, former director of the Clinical Center of Serbia and JUL member". JUL was a party founded and led by Slobodan Milosevic's wife Mirjana Markovic. Vujacic also said that the search was ordered by the investigating magistrate of the Belgrade Higher Court War Crimes Department, adding that it is the fourth time in the past year that Mladic's house, where his wife and son live, is being searched. Vujacic explained that he is present at the search as a "family friend" and not as a legal counsel, since Mladic's family are not suspects.

Police end search of Mladić house in Belgrade

Police said that they confiscated "a number of movable objects and a small sum of money".

Neighbors said that his son Darko Mladić was inside the building.

The last publicized operation launched as part of the search for Mladić took place in October of last year, near Novi Sad, with the President of the National Council for Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajić stating at the time that a “widespread search was implemented.”

In Bosnia, EUFOR conducted its own search on the request from the Hague Tribunal in Bjeljina in May 2009, and the last time Mladić’s home in Banovo Brdo was searched was in December 2008, when police spent eight hours there.

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said on Tuesday that the search of the location was part of the regular activities of the Action Team for the location and arrest of remaining Hague indictees.

“Search is underway in certain buildings and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor will inform the public about that. The search is part of the regular activities which have been carried out at different locations with the aim to find evidence that might help locate the ones that have been charged with the Hague Tribunal,” Dačić told journalists during his visit to the Police Academy.

Asked if state bodies were now closer to locating Mladić, Dačić answered that he would be able to answer that question "only once the search had been proved as fruitful", according to Tanjug.

"Cassettes, discs, organizers and money confiscated"

Police started their operation around 06:00 CET on Tuesday, lawyer Svetozar Vujačić, who is at the location, told Tanjug.

According to Vujačić, police confiscated "a number of CDs, cassettes and organizer books, as well as a certain amount of money, during the search conducted in the presence of two witnesses".

"I can categorically state that the amount of confiscated money is many times less than the figure circulated in the media (EUR 70,000)," Vujačić remarked.

Some reports today said that "EUR 70,000 was found in the apartment of J. Hadži Đokića, an urologist and SANU member, former director of the Clinical Center of Serbia and JUL member". JUL was a party founded and led by Slobodan Milošević's wife Mirjana Marković.

Vujačić also said that the search was ordered by the investigating magistrate of the Belgrade Higher Court War Crimes Department, adding that it is the fourth time in the past year that Mladić's house, where his wife and son live, is being searched.

Vujačić explained that he is present at the search as a "family friend" and not as a legal counsel, since Mladić's family are not suspects.