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Belgrade, 2258 testified that the DB’s upward reporting process was considered complete once
the Chief was informed and for this purpose it normally sufficed that information was sent to
the Deputy Chief. 2259
1276. The Trial Chamber also received evidence about a DB commission, which was
launched in 1991 with a view to investigating Stanišić.
1277. Milorad Leković, the head of the city of Belgrade SDB from November 1988 until
August 1992 and the Serbian MUP Assistant Minister from November 1988 to July 1994, 2260
testified that the Minister of the Interior, Radmilo Bogdanović, and the Deputy Minister of the
Interior, Predrag Todorović, told him that Zoran Janaćković, the head of the SDB in 1991,
“by-passed” Stanišić whenever possible, requesting that all information be sent to him directly
and sending information to Slobodan Milošević on a daily basis. 2261 In the second half of
March 1991, Bogdanović told Leković that Janaćković insisted on setting up a commission to
investigate the leaking of secret information from the SDB to magazines which had published
articles discrediting Slobodan Milošević. 2262 Bogdanović also told Leković that Janaćković
had said that Stanišić had been in contact with and provided information to a magazine editor,
which he based on an official note he had found in the archives. 2263
1278. On 2 April 1991, Minister Bogdanović decided to establish a commission, with
Leković as its president. 2264 At the commission’s first meeting, DB chief Janaćković ordered
that the commission report to him and to Minister Bogdanović and stated that the
commission’s work was strictly confidential and urgent. 2265 From when the commission was
set up until the beginning of October 1991, Janaćković marginalized Stanišić by not giving
him any concrete tasks and told Stanišić not to come to work. 2266 The witness observed that
Stanišić continued to come to work, since no written decision had been issued, but his powers
were limited and certain information was not given to him. 2267 The commission concluded
that the articles had been published without MUP influence and that no MUP personnel had
2258 D270 (Witness DST-035, witness statement, 27 June 2011), p. 1, paras 1-5.
2259 D270 (Witness DST-035, witness statement, 27 June 2011), paras 13, 16.
2260 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), paras 5, 11.
2261 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), para. 12; Milorad Leković, T. 14265,
14327, 14352.
2262 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), para. 13; Milorad Leković, T. 14306.
2263 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), para. 18.
2264 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), paras 19, 21, 38.
2265 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), para. 25; Milorad Leković, T. 14307.
2266 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), para. 28; Milorad Leković, T. 14271-
14272, 14275-14276, 14332.
2267 D450 (Milorad Leković, witness statement, 30 September 2011), paras 28, 33; Milorad Leković, T. 14277.
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