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A man living in Surrey who has been convicted of war crimes in Croatia will face full extradition proceedings next month, it emerged today.
It is believed to the first case of a Balkan war criminal being tracked down in the UK.
Milan Spanovic, a 44-year-old from Carshalton, was arrested by Sutton police for shoplifting in January this year. A routine police check revealed there was an international warrant for his arrest.
Croatian prosecutors accused him of being a member of a Serbian paramilitary unit that looted homes, set fire to public buildings and destroyed a Catholic church in Maja, Croatia, on August 18 1991.
