"The operation to arrest Ratko Mladic is under way and I cannot speak about the details," Stankovic told reporters.
The minister dismissed claims in the Belgrade-based daily "Blic" of Thursday that ten years after the Hague tribunal indicted Mladic for genocide and as many years of search for him, the military secret service would place his family under surveillance and monitor their phone calls. The daily also claimed that Mladic's family was not under surveillance by military security services, because it was the job of civil services.
Mladic's son Darko would not comment on his meeting with Stankovic.
Blic claims that the army is investigating a number of people, mostly from its logistics sector, who have in some way maintained contact with the runaway general.