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Australian police arrests Captain Dragan

Croatian Times

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested suspected war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic.

Better known as Captain Dragan, the 55-year-old wanted for war crimes committed during the war of Independence in the 1990s was arrested in an undisclosed location.

In March Vasiljkovic - who was living in Australia under the name Daniel Sneddan - disappeared after the Australian High Court ruled he should be extradited to Croatia.

The AFP said today he had been arrested thanks to collaboration with Dutch police who sent them some key information which helped locate him.

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