Serbian police arrest suspected Karadzic aide

14/12/2007

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Police have arrested a suspected key figure in the network of supporters though to be helping former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic evade capture. Ljuban Ecim was arrested along with four other people in an operation against a drug trafficking network. Police raided several apartments in Belgrade and seized heroin and cocaine worth about 1m euros, guns, forged identity documents and a large sum of cash. Ecim, a former security official, is one of 35 people in the former Yugoslavia banned from the EU for allegedly helping fugitive war crimes indictees. His home in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been searched several times by NATO and EU peacekeepers seeking clues to Karadzic's whereabouts. (Reuters, UPI, RTS, B92 - 13/12/07)

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