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Milosevic runs Socialist Party of Serbia BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- From his jail cell in The Hague, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic continues to oversee the Socialist Party of Serbia. In a statement released Sunday, party officials said Milosevic had ordered that acting leader Zivadin Jovanovic, a former Yugoslav foreign minister, be replaced by former Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic. Both men lost their government posts after Milosevic and his regime were first defeated in the Sept. 2000 general elections and then overthrown in a bloodless coup the following month. Jovanovic resigned as acting leader but remains a member of the party's executive committee, the statement said. He has been accused of implication with others in approving a request by Milosevic then still in power for a public property to be attached to his adjacent house and real estate in Belgrade's exclusive Dedinje neighborhood. Marjanovic, also a member of the executive committee, has been Milosevic's close friend for many years and has retained his position of managing director of "Progres," one of Yugoslavia's biggest state-owned firms. Exploiting his close links with some top Russian leaders he had been able to illegally import Russian gas and other strategic goods and sell Yugoslav corn abroad throughout the years that Yugoslavia was under an international sanctions for its military operations in Croatia and Bosnia and later in Kosovo. Marjanovic has not been under investigation but a Serbian government commission investigating corruption during Milosevic's rule claimed in a report last September he had a Swiss bank account worth 1.2 million Swiss francs. He immediately denied he had accounts anywhere in the world but the Swiss authorities announced earlier this month they had frozen accounts held by a number of former Yugoslav official without disclosing their names. ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================