SERBIAN POLICE CONFIRMS ARREST OF WARLORD ARKAN'S WIDOW

BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - Serbian police on Monday evening confirmed the arrest of the widow of feared warlord Arkan, Ceca Raznatovic, suspected of having close links with key suspects in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. #L# Radio B92 said Ceca Raznatovic had close contacts with prime suspects in Djindjic's assassination Milorad Lukovic Legija and Dusan Spasojevic immediately before and after the assassination. According to the radio, the two men had stopped by Raznatovic's luxurious Belgrade home and slept there several days prior to the assassination. The government said in a statement the Interior Ministry also apprehended Dragan Ninkovic aka Prevara, former policeman and bodyguard of the second suspect Dusan Spasojevic aka Siptar who is still at large. The raid on the house of Arkan's widow and popular folk music star unearthed a huge quantity of firearms, ammunition and military gear, including night vision optical equipment, sniper telescopic sights and gun silencers, most of it stashed away in an armoured bunker, the Serbian government said in a statement. Arkan, whose real name was Zeljko Raznatovic, was killed in a Belgrade hotel in 2000 and media speculated that Legija, a close friend of the family and first Deputy Commander of the Arkan Serbian Volunteer Guard, became intimate with Svetlana Ceca Raznatovic after Arkan's death. (hina) it