Apparent case of identity theft
The real Dragan Dabic is a 66-year-old construction worker who was shocked to discover that his identity apparently had been stolen by one of the world’s most notorious war crimes suspects.
Radovan Karadzic assumed Dabic’s identity as a cover, officials said. The real Dabic lives in Ruma, a Serbian town just north of Belgrade, said Rasim Ljajic, a government official in charge of war crimes cases.
“Dabic’s ID differs from Karadzic’s only in the photographs of the two,” Ljajic said.
Karadzic is awaiting extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague.
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