SERBIA POLICE SUMMON MILOSEVIC'S WIFE TO REPORT FOR INTERVIEW

BELGRADE, March 29 (Hina) - Mirjana Markovic, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's wife and president of the Yugoslav Left (JUL), left Serbia and Montenegro on February 23 and is now in Russia, Serbia's interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday. #L# Markovic has been summoned to return to Serbia at once and report to the police for an interview, said the statement, adding that in the contrary an international arrest warrant would be issued for her. Serbian police today questioned some JUL members as part of an investigation into the assassination of ex-Serbian President Ivan Stambolic, in which the Milosevic-Markovic couple, it is suspected, might have been implicated. As part of the probe police yesterday disarmed and arrested six of Markovic's bodyguards at her Belgrade residence. In the two weeks since the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, 1,984 persons have been taken into custody as part of a large-scale investigation of mob organisations that were involved with the slaying. This investigation helped police find the assassins of Stambolic, who had been filed as missing since 2000. One of four members of the Special Operations Units, aka Red Berets, who took part in the abduction and killing of Stambolic, confessed that one of the people who contracted the assassination was Rade Markovic, former chief of Serbia's State Security, who is in prison, the BK Telekom television station reported. Mirjana Markovic's formerly closest associates, including Goran Matic, Yugoslavia's information minister until October 2000, Uros Suvakovic and Ivan Markovic, all JUL members, were interrogated today, said BK Telekom Serbia's Justice Minister Vladan Batic said today Djindjic's death was "the finale of a huge conspiracy and a definite attempt to stage a coup". (hina) ha