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ordered to go to Mrkonjić Građ. The witness’s battalion then advanced with the MUP units
and the Drina Wolves (a special VRS unit) towards Mrkonjić Građ and Ključ. 3626 The witness
recognized P1590 as depicting the patch of the Drina Wolves. 3627
1807. Srđan Grekulović, a high ranking police officer of the Serbian MUP and Commander
of the 36th Detachment of the PJPs between 1995 and 1998, 3628 testified that a joint operative
and ministerial command structure existed at Banja Luka, with the superior ministerial staff
headed by Tomislav Kovač, Deputy Minister of Interior of the Bosnian-Serb Republic, whose
office had been moved to Banja Luka at that time. 3629 Under the ministerial level, there were
three operative staffs each headed by a chief of security. Almost all officers in this structure
were from the Bosnian-Serb Republic. 3630 Stevanović and the witness represented the PJP in
the joint staff. 3631 The Serbian MUP forces were subordinated to the local MUP of the
Bosnian-Serb Republic, and the witness’s superior was the Chief of the Banja Luka CSB,
Brane Pećanac. 3632
1808. Witness JF-057 testified that in September and October 1995, members of the Banja
Luka DB came to the SDG headquarters; they were looking for Arkan and explained that,
together with Arkan, they would have a meeting with Frenki. Among them were Ljuban
Ećim, the head of the Banja Luka DB and the Banja Luka DB members Radomir Sejmanović,
a.k.a. Šubara, Simo Drljača and someone with the last name Kajkut, who, according to the
witness were later involved in the Banja Luka operation. 3633 Members of the Tigers told the
witness that they were in the Velika Kladuša operation with these same Banja Luka DB
members. The witness testified that the Banja Luka DB were “under the informal command of
Frenki and Stanišić and that they had roughly the same relationship with Belgrade DB as
Arkan had with Belgrade DB”. 3634
1809. The Trial Chamber has further reviewed evidence from Witness JF-057 in relation to
the involvement of Simatović in directing the SDG in Banja Luka, considering that the
witness testified that during the Banja Luka operations in 1995, Arkan met with
3626 P1596 (Witness JF-027, witness statement, 27 February 2004), paras 35-40; Witness JF-027, T. 8951.
3627 Witness JF-027, T. 8951.
3628 D522 (Srđan Grekulović, witness statement, 25 October 2011), para. 1.
3629 D522 (Srđan Grekulović, witness statement, 25 October 2011), paras 15-16; Srđan Grekulović, T. 15217;
D533 (Request for information sent to the CSB Zvornik, signed by Tomislav Kovač, 26 September 1995).
3630 Srđan Grekulović, T. 15218-15219.
3631 D522 (Srđan Grekulović, witness statement, 25 October 2011), para. 15.
3632 D522 (Srđan Grekulović, witness statement, 25 October 2011), para. 17; Srđan Grekulović, T. 15217.
3633 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 7; Witness JF-057, T.9376, 9486-9489.
3634 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 7.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 637
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