Ratko Mladic arrest: army pension unblocked
Ratko Mladic has been awarded £44,000 in back pay of his war pension by Serbian authorities, his lawyer has claimed.
The former Bosnian Serb army general, who was extradited to the UN war crimes court last week to face charges of genocide and war crimes, had his pension of £714 a month frozen in 2005.
Mladic, branded the "Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1992-95 ethnic war, formally applied for his pension funds to be released after his arrest on May 26 in the Serbian village of Lazarevo after 16 years on the run.
After it was unfrozen, Mladic "authorised his son to take the money on the account," Mr Saljic said.
Serbia has continued to pay the military and state pensions of other Serbian officials and former Yugoslav army officers, like Mladic, on trial before the UN war crimes court....