The media reported also that Serbian police officers arrested L. Karadzic and that he was transferred to Montenegro where charges were pressed against him and where he should serve 30 days in jail under a final court ruling.
His brother Radovan Karadzic, who has been wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague since 1996, was a notorious war-time Bosnian Serb leader. The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal has indicted him for genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the war in Bosnia in 1990s.
Local writer Gojko Djogo, a member of the committee set up for the protection of the runway Radovan Karadzic, slammed the apprehension of L. Karadzic describing this as the politically-motivate retaliation.