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BELGRADE, June 14 (Reuters) - The prime suspect in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic denied on Monday he was behind the killing, but gave the court a detailed account of an alleged plot to "bomb" the West with heroin. Analysts said it was just the sort of political smear they had expected from the appearance in court of Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, former commander of a crack police unit. Rumours that the ex-Foreign Legionnaire would spill the beans on alleged corruption in Djindjic's cabinet sprouted the moment he gave himself up on May 2 after 14 months on...

BELGRADE: A notorious paramilitary leader suspected of masterminding the assassination of Serbia's prime minister last year has surrendered to police. Milorad Lukovic, known by his nickname "Legija", surrendered in Belgrade on Sunday night, Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic said. He had been on the run since March 12, 2003, when reformist prime minister Zoran Djindjic was gunned down by a sniper in front of his Belgrade government headquarters. Lukovic, who led a feared paramilitary unit loyal to then president Slobodan Milosevic during the 1990s wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, is the prime suspect in the slaying. He has been...