{"id":7631,"date":"2012-02-04T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-african-court-denies-bail-to-arkan-killer\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:40:10","slug":"s-african-court-denies-bail-to-arkan-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-court-denies-bail-to-arkan-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African court denies bail to Arkan killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court<br \/>\ndenied bail on Friday to the convicted killer of Serbian warlord<br \/>\n&#8220;Arkan&#8221;, saying he might try to flee to avoid extradition back<br \/>\nto his native country.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dobrosav Gavric was sentenced in absentia by Serbia in 2008<br \/>\nto 35 years in prison for killing Zeljko &#8220;Arkan&#8221; Raznatovic,<br \/>\nSerbia&#8217;s most infamous wartime paramilitary leader and mafia<br \/>\nboss. It remains unclear who ordered the killing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gavric was living in South Africa under a false name with<br \/>\nhis wife and two children until police uncovered his true<br \/>\nidentity late last year during an investigation into another<br \/>\ncrime he was arrested for.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The applicant does not qualify for bail because he poses an<br \/>\ninherent risk, that should he be released on bail, he would<br \/>\nresist extradition to Serbia,&#8221; magistrate Joe Magele told a<br \/>\npacked courtroom in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gavric&#8217;s identity surfaced during a police investigation<br \/>\ninto the murder of a Cape Town underworld kingpin. Gavric was<br \/>\ndriving the gangster&#8217;s car at the time of the assassination.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gavric, who was also wounded in the hit, was charged with<br \/>\npossesion of cocaine found in the bullet-riddled car, and his<br \/>\nidentity was confirmed after Interpol cross-matched his<br \/>\nfingerprints.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He has remained in custody at the request of Serbian<br \/>\nauthorities, who are seeking his extradition. South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\njustice ministry, which is processing Serbia&#8217;s request, was not<br \/>\nimmediately available for comment on its possible outcome.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arkan, who was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for<br \/>\natrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was shot dead in the<br \/>\nlobby of Belgrade&#8217;s Intercontinental Hotel on Jan. 15, 2000.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; editing by Philippa Fletcher)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court denied bail on Friday to the convicted killer of Serbian warlord &#8220;Arkan&#8221;, saying he might try to flee to avoid extradition back to his native country. Dobrosav Gavric was sentenced in absentia by Serbia in 2008 to 35 years in prison for killing Zeljko &#8220;Arkan&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}