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their request, Arkan introduced the witness to Major Pejić, who went to Zvornik with some
SDG members. 3707
1850. After the meeting, the delegation, together with a unit of 20-30 of Arkan’s men,
crossed the Drina river by a small boat near the village of Badovinci, and proceeded towards
Zvornik during the night. 3708 The unit was accommodated in the Radaljska Banja hotel,
located approximately 10 kilometres from Zvornik. 3709 During the meeting in Zvornik the
following day, Pejić explained that the unit was there to assist the Serb people in Zvornik
should a conflict occur. 3710 The witness was not aware of any payment made by the Zvornik
Crisis Staff to Arkan for his unit’s deployment to Zvornik; some time later, however, there
was a discussion on purchasing jeeps for the SDG. 3711
1851. Witness JF-026 testified that Arkan arrived in Zvornik in a vehicle with Federal SUP
license plates, with full police gear, i.e. uniform, weapons and communications equipment,
and passed through official checkpoints on his way to Zvornik. 3712
1852. While the witness was not aware when Kostić became a Serbian DB official, he
testified that at least up to April 1992, when the arming in Zvornik was completed, Kostić
worked in Slavonija and Baranja, initially as the commander of the police station in Darda,
and later as a high-ranking official of the MUP RSK. 3713 In or around February 1992, Kostić
was the RSK minister of the interior for Slavonija and Baranja. 3714 The Stanišić Defence
accepts that Kostić had certain information-gathering obligations towards the Serbian RDB as
an operative already in 1992. 3715 According to the witness, however, it was a standard practice
of the Serbian MUP to employ or grant a stipend to the police officers expelled by Croats
from the SUPs in RSK. 3716
3707 P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), p. 21196; D215 (Witness
JF-026, Šešelj transcript, 12-13 January 2010), pp. 14935-14936, 15024; Witness JF-026, T. 9682.
3708 P1700 (Witness JF-026, witness statement, 16 December 2008), para. 51; P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević
transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), pp. 21196-21197, 21846, 21867-21868; D215 (Witness JF-026,
Šešelj transcript, 12-13 January 2010), p. 14995; Witness JF-026, T. 9745-9746, 9820.
3709 P1700 (Witness JF-026, witness statement, 16 December 2008), para. 51; P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević
transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), pp. 21196-21197, 21846; Witness JF-026, T. 9681, 9820.
3710 P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), pp. 21197, 21866-21867.
3711 D215 (Witness JF-026, Šešelj transcript, 12-13 January 2010), pp. 15032-15033.
3712 P1700 (Witness JF-026, witness statement, 16 December 2008), para. 51; P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević
transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), p. 21882; D215 (Witness JF-026, Šešelj transcript, 12-13 January
2010), pp. 14934-14935; Witness JF-026, T. 9682, 9819.
3713 P1700 (Witness JF-026, witness statement, 16 December 2008), para. 37; P1701 (Witness JF-026, Milošević
transcript, 23 and 26 May 2003, 5 June 2003), p. 21173; D215 (Witness JF-026, Šešelj transcript, 12-13 January
2010), pp. 14901-14902, 14910; Witness JF-026, T. 9669, 9802, 9806, 9716-9717, 9730.
3714 Witness JF-026, T. 9804.
3715 Witness JF-026, T. 9813.
3716 Witness JF-026, T. 9814.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 650
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