BELGRADE, Serbia - Authorities were extraditing ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal to face genocide charges early Wednesday, an official with the Serb prosecutor’s office said.

Karadzic is accused by the U.N. court in The Hague, Netherlands, of masterminding the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. He is also charged with spearheading the three-year siege of Sarajevo that left 10,000 people dead.

Karadzic spent nearly 13 years on the run before being arrested last week in Belgrade, where he lived under the assumed identity of a health guru — sporting a long white beard and hair, and large glasses.

The Serbian government said in a statement issued early Wednesday that its justice ministry had issued a decree that allowed his handover.

Three jeeps with masked drivers and tinted windows were seen speeding away at about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday from the downtown Belgrade war crimes court where Karadzic was being held since his arrest July 21.

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