Eulex: Lawyers arrested for obstructing proceedings

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 25 (Tanjug) - Eulex spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic said on Tuesday that the two people arrested earlier in the day are suspected of having obstructed evidence or official proceedings.

The Mitrovica operating group conducted a search operation in northern Mitrovica late Monday, and two suspects were interviewed and subsequently arrested on orders from the prosecutor, Gudeljevic told Tanjug.

They are currently in police detention and have been charged with obstructing evidence or official proceedings, contrary to Article 394 of the Kosovo penal code, Gudeljevic said.

Lawyers Dejan A. Vasic and Faruk Korenica, who are representing Zarko Veselinovic, a Serb charged with attempted murder of two members of Kosovo's ROSU special police units, were arrested by the Eulex police in the operation early Tuesday.

Last year, Korenica and Vasic defended a group of people charged in connection with incidents during an illegal seizure of the court building in northern Kosovska Mitrovica in 2008.

Vasic is defending Laza Lazic from Strpce, who has been charged with "association against the constitutional acts of Kosovo" and endangering the free will of voters in the local elections held on December 1, 2013.

He is also the lawyer of former Kosovska Mitrovica police chief Dragoljub Delibasic, who has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in an alleged war crime in 1999. and post-war incidents in 2000, including an aggravated murder.

Dejan A. Vasic, a family man and a father of four, is one of the most prominent lawyers in northern Kosovo.

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