Article: Another alleged aide to war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic detained in Serbia


AP Worldstream
04-24-2006
Dateline: BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro
Another alleged ally of top U.N. war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been detained on suspicion of helping the general evade arrest, a lawyer said Monday.

Ratko Vucetic, a retired Bosnian Serb officer, was detained on Saturday, apparently as part of government efforts to hunt down Mladic by an end-of-April European Union deadline, said Vucetic's lawyer Branko Butolen.

Butolen said that a judge would question Vucetic later Monday and decide whether to extend the detention.

Vucetic is the sixth alleged aide to Mladic arrested in the past few months, since the Serbian government stepped up measures to located the fugitive general.

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