Župljanin accomplices detained

The War Crimes Prosecution and MUP have launched an operation to bring in for questioning seven people suspected of aiding Hague accused Stojan Zupljanin. War Crimes Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric told B92 that they had not been arrested, but summoned for questioning, and that they would be interviewed over the coming days. Overall, several dozen citizens are suspected of having links to Zupljanin’s support network. Zupljanin accomplices detained Vekaric said that the war crimes suspect's codebook had been cracked, and that since 1999, other than Serbia, he had hidden in four other countries—in Lagos, as well as in Moscow and Paris. He said that Zupljanin had visited Montenegro on a number of occasions, that he had been to the seaside there, and that he had stayed in 27 locations in Serbia. Explaining that it had been established how he had acquired a genuine personal ID card on an assumed name, Vekaric said that it had been confirmed that he had received the identity of a dead man, Branislav Vukadin, in the Republic of Srpska (RS), and that one of the suspects had helped him get refugee papers. “On the basis of these papers he received ID documents in Backi Petrovac,“ said the spokesman, stating that he would have needed help from people in the police there. He claimed that the war crimes suspect was “exerting pressure on witnesses today from the Hague Tribunal, and that he is making intimidating phone-calls to them,“ adding that the Hague Prosecution would be duly informed of this. Zupljanin was arrested on June 11 in Pancevo where he had been living under the name of Branislav Vukadin. The Hague Tribunal accuses him of planning, instigating, ordering and perpetrating crimes against humanity as an accomplice to a joint criminal undertaking, and that he helped in its planning, preparation and execution. During the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Zupljanin was head of the Central Security Service in Banja Luka and the top police official in Bosnian Krajina, and represented the police in the Autonomous Region of Krajina Headquarters. According to the indictment, the Autonomous Region of Krajina Headquarters carried out a general plan of control and ethnic cleansing on the territory of Banja Luka, Bosanska Krupa, Bosanski Novi, Bosanski Petrovac, Celinac, Donji Vakuf, Kljuc, Kotor Varos, Prijedor, Prnjavor, Sanski Most, Sipovo and Teslic. Stojan Zupljanin (Tanjug, archive)

Župljanin accomplices detained

Vekarić said that the war crimes suspect's codebook had been cracked, and that since 1999, other than Serbia, he had hidden in four other countries—in Lagos, as well as in Moscow and Paris.

He said that Župljanin had visited Montenegro on a number of occasions, that he had been to the seaside there, and that he had stayed in 27 locations in Serbia.

Explaining that it had been established how he had acquired a genuine personal ID card on an assumed name, Vekarić said that it had been confirmed that he had received the identity of a dead man, Branislav Vukadin, in the Republic of Srpska (RS), and that one of the suspects had helped him get refugee papers.

“On the basis of these papers he received ID documents in Bački Petrovac,“ said the spokesman, stating that he would have needed help from people in the police there.

He claimed that the war crimes suspect was “exerting pressure on witnesses today from the Hague Tribunal, and that he is making intimidating phone-calls to them,“ adding that the Hague Prosecution would be duly informed of this.

Župljanin was arrested on June 11 in Pančevo where he had been living under the name of Branislav Vukadin.

The Hague Tribunal accuses him of planning, instigating, ordering and perpetrating crimes against humanity as an accomplice to a joint criminal undertaking, and that he helped in its planning, preparation and execution.

During the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Župljanin was head of the Central Security Service in Banja Luka and the top police official in Bosnian Krajina, and represented the police in the Autonomous Region of Krajina Headquarters.

According to the indictment, the Autonomous Region of Krajina Headquarters carried out a general plan of control and ethnic cleansing on the territory of Banja Luka, Bosanska Krupa, Bosanski Novi, Bosanski Petrovac, Čelinac, Donji Vakuf, Ključ, Kotor Varoš, Prijedor, Prnjavor, Sanski Most, Šipovo and Teslić.