Serbia has arrested Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal.

Serbian President Boris Tadic says Hadzic was arrested Wednesday morning in the mountainous region of Fruska Gora, about 65 kilometers north of Belgrade.

Hadzic led Croatia's rebel Serbs during the war in the 1990s. He disappeared in 2004 when the Hague tribunal indicted him for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is charged with ordering the killing of hundreds of non-Serbs in Croatia and deporting thousands of others.

Mr. Tadic said the arrest closes “a burdensome and gloomy page” in Serbian history. The European Union said the arrest is an “important step” toward EU membership. The White House said the arrest is another reminder to those who carry out terrible crimes that their day will come.

Serbia's chief war crimes prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic, said Hadzic was running out of money. He said authorities searching for Hadzic got a break when he tried to sell a stolen painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

Hadzic was arrested two months after police nabbed former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who is on trial for genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim males.