"Background of Đinđić assassination to be probed"

Special Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanović believes the wider context of Zoran Đinđić’s murder needs to be probed.

Izvor: Beta

Sunday, 10.06.2007.

13:05

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"Background of Đinđić assassination to be probed"

He said that clarification of the political background could not have been done during the first-instance procedure, since it would encumber the criminal proceedings and the trial itself, and postpone the verdicts to Đinđić’s assassins.

“Having in mind the length of custody set for the defendants, the trial itself would come into question,” he explained.

Speaking of the possibility to investigate the Special Operations Unit (JSO) armed rebellion in November 2001, Radovanović wondered why the case had not been looked into at the time it had occurred.

“It remains to be seen why certain criminal offenses have not been processed if the evidence was there. Unfortunately, time takes its toll, and pieces of evidence that are now present, [will] become unavailable as time goes by,” he argued.

The JSO was disbanded on March 22, 2003, ten days after the Đinđić assassination, with its former commander Milorad "Legija" Ulemek and deputy commander Zvezdan Jovanović charged with planning and executing the murder.

Belgrade’s Organized Crime Court found Ulemek and Jovanović guilty on May 23,  sentencing them to maximum 40-year prison terms.

The special prosecutor also spoke about how some members of the so-called bankruptcy, customs and road mafias managed to elude arrests owing to a high level of corruption and criminal that permeates the state.

“Many of those persons miraculously acquire information regarding upcoming police actions even before they begin,” Radovanović said.

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