SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 9 (UPI) -- Bosnian authorities say Russia has handed over to Sarajevo a Bosnian Serb sought by a U.N. tribunal on war crimes charges.
Dragan Zelenovic was flown from Moscow Thursday to a detention unit of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court after several years of hiding in Russia under a false identity, the BBC reported Friday.
Zelenovic is to be transferred soon to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague to stand trial, Sarajevo authorities said.
He is accused of the torture and rape of Muslim women in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca from 1992-93. At the time, Zelenovic was a Bosnian Serb military police chief and the leader of a paramilitary unit.
Zelenovic was arrested in Russia in August on charges of having a forged passport, Serbia's Beta news agency reported.
Wednesday in New York, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of The Hague tribunal, complained to the U.N. Security Council of what she described as "long and unexplained delays" in transferring Zelenovic to the court.
