Quoting intelligence sources, the paper said that Mladic still enjoyed protection of the Serbian army. Providing evidence for this claim, the paper said that two active members of the Serbia and Montenegro Army, Branislav Puhalo and Dragan Lalovic, were under investigation on suspicion of being members of Mladic's security team.
One more person is reportedly under investigation by NATO forces in Bosnia on suspicion of having collected, on Mladic's behalf, the salaries of the runaway general paid by the Bosnian Serb army in Banja Luka.
The fact that Mladic was on the Bosnian Serb army's payroll although he was indicted for war crimes was discovered early this year, when the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina ordered an investigation which revealed that six persons from the Bosnian Serb army had been involved in those activities.
"Oslobodjenje" daily quoted an associate of Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte as saying that Mladic was definitely still in Serbia.
Anton Nikforovich from the Office of the Chief Prosecutor also said that the prosecution did not have reliable information on the whereabouts of Radovan Karadzic.