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witness that the money arrived from Serbia. 3801 Witness JF-050, a Croat from Jajce in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 3802 testified that he recognized the names of a number of SDG members
on Serbian DB JATD payment lists between 1994 and 1995. 3803 On one occasion, when
Witness JF-027, a Croatian ethnic Serb and a former member of the SDG, 3804 was on leave in
Belgrade, he received his salary on the premises of the MUP in Belgrade. 3805 In an undated
interview, Arkan said that Šešelj was the main sponsor of his forces, but that support also
came from patriots in Belgrade and from all over Serbia. 3806
1891. Two witnesses provided evidence regarding Arkan having been a DB agent for the
SFRY and Serbia. Witness JF-057 testified that an SDG member nicknamed “Kale”, who
worked with Arkan in the 1970s and 1980s, stated that before the war started in 1991 Arkan
was an SFRY DB agent working outside the SFRY. 3807 Witness DST-035, a former highranking
Serb DB officer from Belgrade, 3808 testified that Arkan had been the object of
surveillance from 1989 to 1990 by the Belgrade Administration. 3809 According to DB
information, Arkan had been working for the Federal DB since the mid-1980s as an associate,
held official Federal DB identification papers and was being remunerated. 3810 According to
the witness, from 1991 until 1995, Arkan was the subject of continuous surveillance by the
Serbian DB. 3811 Following Stanišić’s appointment as Chief, he ordered the DB to diligently
monitor Arkan. 3812 The witness testified that through monitoring, the DB had information
that, from 1991 to 1992, Arkan was in control of volunteers from Serbia who were recruited
by the SDG and sent to Erdut and other locations outside Serbia where they were trained and
armed. 3813 Reporting on Arkan was categorised as high-security and code-names, for instance
“Kafa”, were used to identify him in DB reports. Although the use of pseudonyms in DB
3801 Dejan Slišković, T. 5255.
3802 P570 (Witness JF-050, witness statement, 15 December 1998), p. 2; P572 (Witness JF-050, prior testimony),
p. 18369.
3803 P588 (DB payment records comment chart signed by Witness JF-050); see also e.g. payment records
admitted as P157, P541-P543, P545-P547, P1490-P1491, P1493-P1494, P1496-1497.
3804 P1596 (Witness JF-027, witness statement, 27 February 2004), p. 1, para. 7; Witness JF-027, T. 8887, 8890,
8971.
3805 Witness JF-027, T. 8886-8887, 8892.
3806 P2924 (Interview with Željko Ražnjatović, On Gazette), p. 1.
3807 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 2; P1618 (Witness JF-057, prior
testimony), pp. 19445, 19551-19552; Witness JF-057, T. 9415, 9426-9427, 9614-9615; P1646 (Report by the
Belgrade Administration of the SDB of the MUP Serbia, to the MUP Serbia SDB 3rd Administration, dated 7
January 1991, pp. 1-6.
3808 D270 (Witness DST-035, witness statement, 27 June 2011), p. 1, paras 1-5.
3809 D270 (Witness DST-035, witness statement, 27 June 2011), paras 70-72, 80; Witness DST-035, T. 12340.
3810 D270 (Witness DST-035, witness statement, 27 June 2011), paras 71-73; Witness DST-035, T. 12239-
12242; D272 (Dispatch from Chief of SDB RSUP Zoran Janacković concerning Arkan, 9 January 1990), p. 1.
3811 Witness DST-035, T. 12166, 12176-12177, 12184, 12246-12248.
3812 Witness DST-035, T. 12166, 12168, 12250-12251, 12270.
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