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Serbian Press Agency SRNA, Bijeljina August 5, 2008 VUJACIC: WE KNOW WHO ORDERED CONFISCATION OF KARADZIC'S LAPTOP BELGRADE - Svetozar Vujacic, Radovan Karadzic's attorney, told SRNA that in three to five days he would publicly reveal the names of the people who ordered Karadzic to be illegally detained in an unknown location for three days upon his arrest unless the laptop and 50 disks taken from Karadzic are returned to him within that period. "We are talking about not more than the four highest state officials of Serbia, and I will not only publish their names but I will press criminal charges against them," said Vujacic. He emphasized that the laptop and disks contain documents and basis postulates of the defense Karadzic has been preparing for 10 years and assessed that these confiscated items have not been returned to Karadzic in order to make it impossible for him to defend himself. "If Radovan Karadzic does not get his laptop and disks, he will simply not defend himself," emphasized Vujacic. Vujacic said that the Serbian deputy prosecutor for war crimes Dragoljub Stankovic confirmed that he has sent requests to Security Information Agency (BIA) director Sasa Vukadinovic, state police minister Ivica Dacic and Serbian president Boris Tadic in which he requested a report on the circumstances of the arrest of Radovan Karadzic but has not yet received a reply. He confirmed that another Karadzic attorney, Goran Petronijevic, today submitted a motion to the investigating judge of the war crimes chamber of the District Court in Belgrade with concrete proposals regarding the laptop and 50 disks. These are amendments of an earlier request for these items to be returned to Karadzic because they contain the facts that directly impact his defense. Karadzic's attorneys claim that the former Republika Srpska president was arrested on July 18, not on July 21 as claimed by Belgrade officials. The attorneys claim that Karadzic was arrested the evening of July 18 on a public bus in the suburb of Batajnica. His laptop and 50 disks were taken from him at that time. The investigating judge of the war crimes chamber of the District Court in Belgrade Milan Dilparic said earlier that Karadzic's claims regarding the date of his arrest would be checked. __._,_.___
