"We have been exchanging information with Croatian colleagues for some time on the possible stay of Zemun mob clan members in Croatia," Dacic was quoted by the Belgrade-based news agency Beta as saying on Thursday afternoon after it was confirmed that Simovic, convicted in absentia for his role in the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, was nabbed by the Serbian police while trying to illegally cross from Croatia into Serbia.
The police search for Simovic intensified after Sretko Kalinic, another member of the Zemun mob clan, identified Simovic as the man who shot at him at Rakitje, outside Zagreb, on Tuesday afternoon.
Kalinic, who was seriously wounded in the Rakitje shootout, is being treated in a Zagreb hospital.