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Karadzic hides in Belgrade with false identity
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-23 00:36 BELGRADE - The newly arrested "top war crimes suspect" Radovan Karadzic had been hiding in Serbian capital Belgrade with false identity and posed as a doctor, Serbian officials said Tuesday.
"Karadzic had been using forged documents with the name Dragan Dabic," Rasim Ljajic, president of the Serbian National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal said at a news conference.
"Karadzic was not a Serbian citizen and he had been very convincing in hiding his true identity," said Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic who joined the conference. "He made money by practicing alternative medicine in a private clinic in Belgrade; neither people in the clinic nor his landlord knew his true identity," Vukcevic said. "His last residence was in the suburban area of New Belgrade. He had moved freely through the city, and had appeared in public places." On a picture shown at the news conference, Karadzic was almost unrecognizable as a thin old guy with long grey hair and whiskers and glasses. The former Bosnian Serb leader was arrested last night in Belgrade while moving to a different location, the two officials said, adding that the operation had begun yesterday afternoon and preparations had been underway some time earlier. But they denied that the arrest was done by a chosen place and time, explaining that Karadzic's whereabouts were found out when security agents were following a group of people suspected of being part of the fugitive's support network. |
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