Serbian Police - Family Friend Says Reuters - Serbia Arrests Mladic

By Aleksandar Vasovic

BELGRADE Thu May 26, 2011 7:10am EDT

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia features rotting in jail Bosnian Serb wartime common Ratko Mladic who is wanted by an international court on genocide charges, a household close friend said upon Thursday.

"He will be within the headquarters associated with BIA," that person said, referring to the particular Serbian intelligence agency. "He had been arrested in Serbia."

An insides ministry recognized mentioned previously police have busted anyone regarded as Mladic and were being verifying his identity.

"He possesses some physical popular features of Mladic. We tend to be analyzing his DNA now," the official mentioned on affliction connected with anonymity.

The suspect, which had files on the pup showing this brand Milorad Komadic, has been rotting in jail around Serbia on an anonymous tip, he / she said.

Serbian President Boris Tadic scheduled an vital announcement meeting to get 1300 local occasion (8 a.m. EDT), with no giving almost any reason. Serbia need to arrest Mladic if it wants to help work with this European Union. The ex - Bosnian Serb commander can be needed with the International Criminal Tribunal for your Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with regard to genocide over the 1992-5 Bosnian war.

The European Commission said it had been awaiting evidence with regardless of whether Serbian police arrest include in jail Mladic as well as stated this type of move would present the nation planned to move forward on European Union membership.

Croatian paper Jutarnji List, which initial announced situation citing Serbian police sources, claimed Serbian exclusive energies had made the particular arrest with Thursday in Serbia.

The documents claimed it implemented a tip-off in which Komadic weary a likeness that will Mladic.

The prosecutor's business office along at the ICTY in The Hague stated it may definitely not comment on functional issues.

(Additional reporting simply by Aaron Gray-Block in Amsterdam; key phrases simply by Daria Sito-Sucic and Philippa Fletcher )