03 October 2008 Belgrade_ The director of the Serbian council for cooperation with the Hague War Crimes Tribunal said that number one
war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been issued a Serbian ID card in 1999.
"An investigation determined that the personal identity card was issued to Ratko Mladic on November 3, 1999 at his request made over the phone to a high-ranking official in Serbia's Interior Ministry, but the document was not entered into the system," Ljajic told the Serbian news agency Beta.
"Mladic got his identity card in two hours," he said.
Mladic has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the genocide of approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, committed while he was the Bosnian Serb Army's top general.
Earlier this year, the director of Serbia's Security Information Agency, Sasa Vukadinovic, denied reports by some media that a document with Mladic's fingerprints had disappeared.
Mladic's war time ally Radovan Karadzic was also issued a false ID card. Karadzic, the former president of the Republika Srpska, was arrested earlier this year and handed over to the Hague tribunal. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12061
Rasim Ljajic said that Mladic's fingerprints do not show up in the state system for recoding IDs because when issued the ID document was never recorded.
"An investigation determined that the personal identity card was issued to Ratko Mladic on November 3, 1999 at his request made over the phone to a high-ranking official in Serbia's Interior Ministry, but the document was not entered into the system," Ljajic told the Serbian news agency Beta.
"Mladic got his identity card in two hours," he said.
Mladic has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the genocide of approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, committed while he was the Bosnian Serb Army's top general.
Earlier this year, the director of Serbia's Security Information Agency, Sasa Vukadinovic, denied reports by some media that a document with Mladic's fingerprints had disappeared.
Mladic's war time ally Radovan Karadzic was also issued a false ID card. Karadzic, the former president of the Republika Srpska, was arrested earlier this year and handed over to the Hague tribunal. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12061
