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6.4.5 The Accused directed and organized the financing, training, logistical support, and
other substantial assistance or support for the Serbian Volunteer Guard
1885. According to the Indictment, the Accused directed and organized the financing,
training, logistical support, and other substantial assistance or support for the SDG. 3784
1886. In the present section the Trial Chamber will consider whether the Accused directed
and organized the financing, logistical support, and other substantial assistance or support for
the SDG outside the time-period of specific operations addressed in chapters 6.4.4, 6.5.3, and
6.5.4, and whether they directed and organized the SDG’s training. The Trial Chamber will
below set out and review the evidence of Witness JF-057, Witness JF-035, Nebojša
Bogunović, Dejan Slišković, Witness JF-050, Witness C-015, Witness DST-035, Witness JF-
027, Witness JF-025, Reynaud Theunens, Gvozden Gagić, and documentary evidence. In its
Final Trial Brief, the Prosecution argues that the Accused directed and organized the
financing, training, logistical support and other substantial assistance or support for the SDG
as the SDG was under their command. 3785 According to the Prosecution, the Serbian DB
remained in constant contact with the SDG and financed the SDG by paying SDG members’
salaries. 3786 The Stanišić Defence argues that Arkan was well-connected to politicians and
military commanders and received his supplies through them, and not through the Serbian
DB. 3787 The Simatović Defence mainly attacks the credibility of Witness JF-057 as further set
out below.
1887. The Trial Chamber will first set out the evidence received in relation to financing of
the SDG.
1888. Witness JF-057 testified that members of the SDG would go to the SDB office to pick
up money that was delivered to them there. 3788 Sometimes the Serbian DB delivered money
directly to the Erdut camp for the SDG soldiers’ salaries. 3789 The witness testified that Arkan
received money from the Serbian DB – Dinars worth millions of DEM – which was always
newly printed cash and was mainly used for paying the Tigers. 3790 No records were kept of the
3784 Indictment, paras 5, 15(c).
3785 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 303-305.
3786 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 307-310.
3787 Stanišić Defence Final Trial Brief, 17 December 2012, paras 434-438.
3788 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), pp. 3-4; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement,
10 November 2002), p. 11; P1619 (Witness JF-057, Memorandum of amendments made to prior statements and
testimony, 22 November 2010), p. 1.
3789 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 11; Witness JF-057, T. 9596.
3790 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 4; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p. 11; Witness JF-057, T. 9596-9597.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 663
30 May 2013