BELGRADE: EYEWITNESS EMERGES IN REPORTER MURDER CASE

BELGRADE, Dec 9 (Hina) - An until now unknown eyewitness to the murder of reporter Slavko Curuvija has "precisely identified" the suspects as the perpetrators of the murder, the Serbian Interior Ministry's special prosecution for organised crime and department for the fight against organised crime said in a statement on Tuesday. #L# Curuvija, the owner of Dnevni telegraf daily and Evropljanin weekly, was killed in Belgrade on 11 April 1999, during NATO's intervention against the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The ministry said in a statement that it had had no knowledge of the eyewitness to Curuvija's murder, who emerged on December 5, and that his statement led to significant progress in shedding light on the murder and discovering the perpetrator. "Since this is an organised political assassination, operative work on the case will resume to formally identify the person(s) who ordered, organised and took part in it," the ministry said in the statement, adding that "the identity of the current suspects cannot be revealed due to the ongoing investigation". (hina) rml sb