LUKOVIC TO BE QUESTIONED IN CONTINUATION OF DJINDJIC SLAYING TRIAL ON MAY 10

BELGRADE, May 3 (Hina) - The principal indictee in the assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and former commander of Serbia's special police units, Milorad Lukovic aka Legija, who surrendered to the police in front of his Belgrade home on Sunday evening, will be questioned in continuation of the trial of 13 persons accused of the assassination, due to resume at Belgrade's Special Court for Organised Crime on May 10, an attorney for Djindjic's family told BK Television.#L# Lukovic's attorneys Momcilo Bulatovic and Slobodan Milivojevic told the same TV station they had no information on the arrest of their client nor had they tried to check reports about his arrest with the police. Milorad Lukovic Legija is the principal indictee in the Djindjic assassination trial and the trial of people accused of killing former Serbian Premier Ivan Stambolic and of the attempted murder of Serb Revival Movement party leader Vuk Draskovic in Budva. The police have just completed an investigation against Lukovic in the case of an incident which happened on a highway near Belgrade when four senior officials of the Serb Revival Movement were killed in a car crash. Nikola Barovic, legal representative for the Stambolic family, said on Monday that considering the numerous trials that were being conducted against Lukovic, it would be best to grant him the status of a protected witness in some trials so light could be shed on the crimes and the people who ordered them. Under the Law on the Prevention of Organised Crime, the status of a protected witness cannot be granted to an organiser of a criminal act, but possible decisions on that matter will be made by the prosecution, said Maja Kovacevic Tomic, spokeswoman for the Special Court. Shortly before midnight on Sunday, the Serbian Interior Ministry confirmed Lukovic's arrest and transfer to Belgrade's Central Prison. (Hina) rml