KORAC: NOBODY WILL BE SPARED IN PROBE INTO DJINDJIC'S MURDER

BELGRADE, April 10 (Hina) - The Serbian police will spare nobody in their investigation into the assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and claims to that effect are "notorious lies" and are part of the rhetoric which led to Djindjic's murder, Serbian Vice-Premier Zarko Korac said. #L# "The story about contacts between senior officials and party leaders and the leaders of criminal gangs is not over yet and we are looking at more surprises. Clear facts are needed to present concrete names," Korac said in an interview for the Vecernje novosti daily of Thursday. The police questioned an advisor to former Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, Rade Bulatovic, and a former head of the Yugoslav military intelligence, Aleksandar Tomic (both were arrested on Tuesday), because "their names cropped up during the investigation and they were taken in later, after new facts were revealed," Korac said. The vice-premier added that the question of responsibility of "those who perhaps could have done more to prevent Djindjic's murder" would be opened only after the investigation into his assassination was completed. Commenting on Bulatovic and Tomic's arrest due to their alleged contacts with the heads of the "Zemun mobster clan" ahead of Djindjic's murder, Kostunica said it was part of a campaign of the "persecution of political opponents". Dragan Marsicanin, vice- president of Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, directly accused Serbian Vice-Premier Cedomir Jovanovic of connections with the clan, as well as of his being responsible for the release of Dusan Spasojevic Siptar from prison after the French police deported him to Serbia due to the forging of personal documents. Spasojevic was recently killed in a police operation. Jovanovic dismissed the accusations, saying Kostunica and his party were trying to misdirect the investigation into Djindjic's murder. (hina) rml