FORMER SERBIAN POLICE OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF STAMBOLIC'S ABDUCTION, POLITICAL MURDERS

BELGRADE, Jan 25 (Hina) - The Belgrade police on Friday discovered more than three kilograms of heroin and weapons at the shopping centre "Kotobanja". One of the owners of the centre accused a former commander of Serbia's special police forces of being responsible for the incident, stating that he was also responsible for some 30 politically motivated killings and the kidnapping of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic. #L# According to first information, Ljubisa Buha was identified as the owner of the centre, however, the Serbian police later denied this, stating that the centre is owned by "a group of citizens". Buha, who has been hiding outside the country for months, yesterday contacted Belgrade's Television B92, claiming that he was one of the twelve owners of the centre. He dismissed claims that he was connected to the discovered drugs and weapons and accused Dusan Spasojevic, who is known to the police from before, and Milorad Ulemek-Lukovic Legija, a former commander of Serbia's special police forces, of being responsible for that. Buha claimed to have evidence that the two had committed some 30 killings and participated in an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Serbian Revival Movement, Vuk Draskovic, in Budva, as well as in an attempt on Draskovic's life on the Ibar road in late 1999, when four senior party officials were killed. Buha also accused the two of the abduction of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic in August 2000, claiming that Stambolic was taken away in the same van which was used during the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic in 2001 and that its registration plates were known to the then head of the State Security Service, Radomir Markovic, who is standing trial for the Ibar road killings. (hina) rml