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...biggest financial scandals in Italian history; in Sun City, Ariz. Following the looting of $1.3 billion from another Italian bank, in which the Vatican held a major share, Marcinkus faced charges as an accessory to the crime. Though the Holy See would not permit his arrest--and he and the Vatican maintained his innocence--it paid $250 million as a "goodwill settlement" of the case...
...would the arrest be such a big deal...
...past several months, the failure to arrest Mladic has been a source of growing headaches for Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and his government. Serbia is scheduled to start talks about joining the European Union in early April, but Brussels has already told Belgrade that the talks will be suspended, probably for a very long period, unless the general is apprehended within the next two or three weeks. Also, the failure to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal is likely to complicate negotiations over the future status of Kosovo, which opened last week in Vienna. Serbia desperately wants to keep some...
...rumor of the high-profile arrest get started...
...year-old general, who led Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was retired in 1996 and lived quite openly in Belgrade despite an international warrant for his arrest. He was protected by Slobodan Milosevic, the long-time Serbian president who was himself indicted for war crimes in Bosnia and Kosovo. After Milosevic's downfall in 2000, Mladic went underground, although he was reportedly seen at several remote locations in Serbia. Since 2000. Serbian authorities insisted that they had no idea about Mladic's whereabouts, even though they continued to send his pension checks to his family, who still...