BELGRADE, Jan 5 (Hina) - Maja Kovacevic Tomic, a spokeswoman for Serbia's special court dealing with organised crime, told Radio B92 on Monday evening she had unofficial information that Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav president
who is standing trial at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, had refused to receive an indictment charging him with incitement to murder former Serbian leader Ivan Stambolic.
BELGRADE, Jan 5 (Hina) - Maja Kovacevic Tomic, a spokeswoman for
Serbia's special court dealing with organised crime, told Radio B92 on
Monday evening she had unofficial information that Slobodan Milosevic,
former Yugoslav president who is standing trial at the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague, had refused to receive an indictment charging
him with incitement to murder former Serbian leader Ivan Stambolic.#L#
Kovacevic Tomic said the Serbian Public Prosecutor had failed in three
attempts to serve the indictment on Milosevic through the Committee
for Cooperation with the Hague tribunal.
"We have no reply. We have been unofficially informed that Milosevic
refused to receive the indictment. As soon as we are officially
notified, the bill of indictment will be displayed on the noticeboard
of the Belgrade District Court according to law. The deadline for the
accused Milosevic to file a complaint expires in eight days," the
spokeswoman said.
The indictment, issued a few months ago, charges Milosevic, along with
nine others, with incitement to murder Ivan Stambolic, who went
missing in August 2000 and was found dead in a pit on Mount Fruska
Gora in March 2003.
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