Tanzania and Ethiopia silent on Curuvija murder suspect

Investigative website Insajder is reporting, citing other media, that Kurak had been living and working for years in Tanzania.

The Interior Ministry (MUP) told Insajder that they sent a request to locate and arrest Kurak to the General Secretariat of Interpol, as well as their offices in Tanzania and Ethiopia.

However, according to the MUP, the authorities in these countries have not responded to date. Insajder, on the other hand, did not receive a clear answer from the MUP on whether a targeted search had been conducted for Kurak.

"In accordance with its legal authority, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is taking all measures and actions necessary to find and deprive of liberty all persons for whom the judicial authorities have issued a warrant," the MUP said.

The trial of four members of the State Security Service (RDB), charged with the murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, began in 2015. Miroslav Kurak, a member of the State Security reserves, charged as the direct perpetrator of the murder, remains on the run. He was ordered under custody by the court, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

His name as the perpetrator of Curuvija's murder was first publicly mentioned by the leader of the Serb Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, who later denied it. That some information had come to the SRS leader was later confirmed by witnesses-collaborators in statements made before the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, including Dejan Milenkovic aka Bagzi, who said that he was present when Milorad Ulemek aka Legija and Dusan Spasojevic quarreled about giving information to Seselj about Curuvija's murderers.

Some witnesses, during the investigation, claimed they saw Miroslav Kurak and Ratko Romic, another...