Ex-state security officials arrested

Former state security (DB) officials Ratko Romić and Milan Radonjić have been placed under arrest in Belgrade on Tuesday, it has been confirmed for B92.

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Tuesday, 14.01.2014.

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BELGRADE Former state security (DB) officials Ratko Romic and Milan Radonjic have been placed under arrest in Belgrade on Tuesday, it has been confirmed for B92. They are suspected of involvement in the 1999 murder of publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija. Ex-state security officials arrested Radonjic and Romic have been mentioned for years as being among those involved in the murder that took place on April 11, 1999, in Belgrade. In a statement to the newspaper Politika this week, Romic said he expected to be arrested, but said that he did not participate in the crime. "I know that I will be arrested. I am in Belgrade, calm and composed, they can go ahead and arrest me. I will defend myself with the truth because I did not participate in that, and I will prove it," Romic told the daily. Belgrade newspapers Danas and Blic wrote earlier this week that an indictment in the case was ready and that it also included former DB chief Rade Markovic, and operative Miroslav Kurak, who is the only suspect of the four unavailable to the justice organs in Serbia and will have an international arrest warrant issued against him. Immediately after the murder took place, Curuvija's family filed criminal charges against Markovic, Radonjic, Mirjana Markovic, and unidentified perpetrators. The ruling coalition in Serbia at the time was made up of the SPS, JUL, and SRS parties. Markovic was arrested in 2001 and is currently serving 40 years in prison for the murder of Ivan Stambolic in 2000, and four SPO party officials in 1999, during an assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic. Radonjic and Romic are on trial in Belgrade for aiding another assassination attempt on Draskovic, this time in Montenegro, in 2000. They were found guilty and convicted to eight and seven years in prison in the first degree, but that verdict was overturned and a retrial ordered. A combination photo showing Radonjic (L) and Romic (Tanjug) B92

Ex-state security officials arrested

Radonjić and Romić have been mentioned for years as being among those involved in the murder that took place on April 11, 1999, in Belgrade.

In a statement to the newspaper Politika this week, Romić said he expected to be arrested, but said that he did not participate in the crime.

"I know that I will be arrested. I am in Belgrade, calm and composed, they can go ahead and arrest me. I will defend myself with the truth because I did not participate in that, and I will prove it," Romić told the daily.

Belgrade newspapers Danas and Blic wrote earlier this week that an indictment in the case was ready and that it also included former DB chief Rade Marković, and operative Miroslav Kurak, who is the only suspect of the four unavailable to the justice organs in Serbia and will have an international arrest warrant issued against him.

Immediately after the murder took place, Ćuruvija's family filed criminal charges against Marković, Radonjić, Mirjana Marković, and unidentified perpetrators.

The ruling coalition in Serbia at the time was made up of the SPS, JUL, and SRS parties.

Marković was arrested in 2001 and is currently serving 40 years in prison for the murder of Ivan Stambolić in 2000, and four SPO party officials in 1999, during an assassination attempt on Vuk Drašković.

Radonjić and Romić are on trial in Belgrade for aiding another assassination attempt on Drašković, this time in Montenegro, in 2000.

They were found guilty and convicted to eight and seven years in prison in the first degree, but that verdict was overturned and a retrial ordered.

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