London, July 26: War criminal Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was so successful as a “miracle” healer that he travelled across Europe to treat wealthy Serbs.

The bearded fugitive, 63, is said to have made so much money curing a variety of ailments that he was about to start a new life in Russia.

Mina Minic, his tutor in Serbian capital Belgrade, said: “He learned quickly and soon became a name in his own right. He was preparing to move to Russia but decided to stay to learn more from me. It seems he left it too long.”

Belgrade - Most Serbs believe the war crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia is biased against Serbs and fewer than half want Serbia to hand over suspects, a poll showed Friday.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, poised for extradition after his arrest Monday in Belgrade, is a hero for a third of Serbs, the survey by Strategic Marketing pollsters found.

Only 17 per cent see him as a villain and 42 per cent are undecided, the poll of 1,000 people found.

Fifty-four per cent of Serbs do not support extraditions of war crimes suspects and 86 per cent believe the Hague tribunal is anti-Serb, the poll said.

Sarajevo - International administrator in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak said he may consider returning travel documents to the Karadzic family once he is sure this would not contribute to the support network for suspected war criminals still at large, Bosnian media reported Friday.

After the top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was arrested late Monday in Belgrade, his wife and daughter called on the international community's high representative in Bosnia to give them back their travel documents so they can visit Karadzic while he is still in Belgrade.

In January Lajcak ordered the confiscation of the documents under the suspicion that the family were involved in the support network for war crimes suspects still at large.

Sarajevo - Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader indicted for war crimes, may lose his property in order to compensate the victims of his alleged crimes, Bosnian media reported Friday quoting a US official in Bosnia.

Sarajevo daily Dnevni avaz reported that Karadzic owes some 4.5 billion US dollars to a group of people who sued him before a US court for "organizing detention facilities where non-Serb women were systematically raped."

Belgrade - High ranking Serbian officials have received death threats over the arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, prompting the security services to raise the level of alert to its highest, Belgrade daily Blic reported Friday.

Serbia's pro-European President Boris Tadic, his partner in government and the leader of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialists, Ivica Dacic, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic and the head of the national council for cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Rasim Ljajic, all received death threats after Karadzic's arrest.

Belgrade- The Serbian government decided Thursday to return its envoys pulled out of European Union capitals that recognized Kosovo's independence.

Serbia's ruling coalition of pro-European parties and Socialists welcomed the decision, but the nationalist opposition said it amounted to "a capitulation" by Serbia.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic recommended the move as an effort to "enhance the diplomatic capacities of Serbia".