On je nestao nekoliko mjeseci nakon što je ICTY u julu 1995. podigao inicijalnu zajedničku optužnicu protiv njega i bivšeg vojnog komandanta bosanskih Srba Ratka Mladića.
He disappeared several months after the ICTY issued its initial joint indictment against him and former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic in July 1995.