Serbia’s police chief says a former head of military intelligence is being investigated for allegedly helping Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive, Ratko Mladic, evade justice.

Ivica Dacic said Monday that Aco Tomic is being probed because of reports he sheltered the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander in military barracks in Serbia in the mid-2000s.

Tomic was a close aide of former Serbian president Vojislav Kostunica, who took over from autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic after a popular revolt in 2000.

Mladic is wanted by a U.N. tribunal for the massacre in 1995 of some 8,000 Muslims from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica and the three year siege of Sarajevo by his troops during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

November 08, 2010
Associated Press

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