From EU Business.com. Seems the EU is on the hunt for information relating to the elusive Radovan Karadzic. Maybe he's having lunch with Osama bin Laden somewhere.
22 April 2008, 11:17 CET
(SARAJEVO) – NATO-backed forces of the European Union said they conducted a raid Tuesday on the home of a Bosnian Serb businessman suspected of helping war crimes fugitives to evade justice.
“EUFOR conducted a search operation in the premises of Goran Marinkovic in Paprikovac district” near Banja Luka, said a statement issued by the EU peacekeeping force in Bosnia (EUFOR).
“We believe Marinkovic uses his extensive business links to fund the fugitives. We are looking for evidence of communication between Marinkovic and family and support networks” of the fugitives, it added.
The operation, requested by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was aimed at finding material or information which could help to locate fugitives and put pressure on their supporters.
Marinkovic, who owns two large trading companies, is believed to be one of the key backers of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) founded by Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic.
Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic have been on the run from the United Nations tribunal based in The Hague for more than 12 years since being charged with war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
The pair also face a genocide charge related to the 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
Karadzic is thought to be hiding in Bosnia's Serb-run half or in neighbouring Montenegro, while Mladic is believed to be in Serbia.
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