Three JSO members accused of perjury

Three former JSO members will be charged with perjury in the Ivan Stambolić and Budva murder trials.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 12.08.2008.

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Three former JSO members will be charged with perjury in the Ivan Stambolic and Budva murder trials. The Fifth Municipal Prosecution in Belgrade is expected to press charges against three members of the former Special Operations Unit (JSO), who are suspected of giving false testimony, according to Municipal Prosecutor Dragan Lopusina. Three JSO members accused of perjury He explained that the prosecution had received a draft of the indictment from the Special Anti-Organized Crime Prosecution. The indictment states that three former JSO members gave false testimony at the trials of those accused of the murder of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic and the attempted murder of Serbian Renewal Movement leader Vuk Draskovic in Budva. If found guilty, the three suspects could face up to five years in prison. Stambolic was kidnapped on August 25, 2000, and was later killed in Fruska Gora. The Draskovic assassination attempt took place on June 15, 2000. The Supreme Court dismissed the testimony of the JSO members at appeal. Former JSO commander Milorad Ulemek and his subordinate Branko Bercek were found guilty in both trials and were both sentenced to 40 years in prison. In the same trial, former National Security Chief Radomir Markovic was sentenced to 15 years for complicity in the two cases. The other convicted JSO members were Nenad Ilic, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, Leonid Milivojevic and Dusko Maricic to 30 years each, and Nenad Bujosevic to 35 years in prison. Former JSO Head of Security Milorad Bracanovic was sentenced to two years for failure to report the preparations for the two operations, and later for not reporting the perpetrators to the authorities. Ivan Stambolic (FoNet, archive)

Three JSO members accused of perjury

He explained that the prosecution had received a draft of the indictment from the Special Anti-Organized Crime Prosecution.

The indictment states that three former JSO members gave false testimony at the trials of those accused of the murder of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolić and the attempted murder of Serbian Renewal Movement leader Vuk Drašković in Budva.

If found guilty, the three suspects could face up to five years in prison.

Stambolić was kidnapped on August 25, 2000, and was later killed in Fruška Gora. The Drašković assassination attempt took place on June 15, 2000.

The Supreme Court dismissed the testimony of the JSO members at appeal.

Former JSO commander Milorad Ulemek and his subordinate Branko Berček were found guilty in both trials and were both sentenced to 40 years in prison.

In the same trial, former National Security Chief Radomir Marković was sentenced to 15 years for complicity in the two cases.

The other convicted JSO members were Nenad Ilić, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, Leonid Milivojević and Duško Maričić to 30 years each, and Nenad Bujošević to 35 years in prison.

Former JSO Head of Security Milorad Bracanović was sentenced to two years for failure to report the preparations for the two operations, and later for not reporting the perpetrators to the authorities.

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