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Mrgud was to pay Arkan’s men, probably with the money the Arkan’s men “guarded” in
Erdut. 3959
1947. Borivoje Savić, an SDS member from Vinkovci in the municipality of Vukovar,
Croatia, 3960 testified that in the spring of 1992, Medić told him that his boss was Jovica
Stanišić, and Dejan Slišković, a Serb who was a member of the JATD from June 1994 to
May 1995, 3961 testified that Boca Medić was subordinate to Jovica Stanišić. 3962
1948. Furthermore, according to unsigned and undated intelligence reports, 3963 which
military expert witness Reynaud Theunens 3964 concluded, based on their content and origins,
had been drafted by a VJ Security Organs after May 1996, the paramilitary unit of 150-200
armed members run by Slobodan (Boca) Medić operated in the SAO SBWS (RSK) and the
Bosnian-Serb Republic from the beginning of the war in 1991 until the enforcement of the
Dayton Agreement, and was and remained in direct contact with the RDB and MUP or was
engaged under the guise of special units of the RDB or MUP. 3965 It engaged in smuggling. 3966
According to one of these reports, at the time it was drafted, the Skorpions were either to be
transferred to the territory of the Republic of Serbia or were already transferred there, and
they were not to be included in the JSO, but used for special tasks outside the RDB and MUP
structures. 3967
1949. The Trial Chamber has also received evidence suggesting that there were no links
between the Skorpions and the Serbian DB. Witness JF-029 was positive that nobody in the
SAO SBWS received orders from outside, i.e. from Serbia, and testified that Mrgud never
received orders from Badža. 3968 According to the witness, the Skorpions was not a unit of the
Serbian DB and its members were not from the Serbian MUP and he did not know whether
3958 P2146 (Witness JF-024, witness statement, 17 February 2005), para. 42-43, 48, 50.
3959 P1652 (Intelligence Report on the Situation in Eastern Slavonia and Baranja, unsigned), p. 1.
3960 Borivoje Savić, T. 1739-1740.
3961 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), p. 1, paras 3-4, 20; P441 (Dejan Slišković,
witness statement, 8 April 2010), p. 1, paras 13-14, 63.
3962 Borivoje Savić, T. 1804; Dejan Slišković, T. 5120; P483 (Video depicting two men in camouflage uniforms
in a trench with binoculars and a radio), 00:07-00:08.
3963 P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated); P1075 (Report on the formation of the JSO of the
RDB of Serbia, unsigned, undated).
3964 Reynaud Theunens, T. 8049-8057; P1574 (Curriculum Vitae of Reynaud Theunens).
3965 Reynaud Theunens, T. 8081-8083, 8201-8217, 8233-8237; P1575 (Reynaud Theunens expert report, 30 June
2007), pp. 109, 124, 130; P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated), p. 1; P1075 (Report on the
formation of the JSO of the RDB of Serbia, unsigned, undated), p. 2.
3966 P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated), p. 1.
3967 P1075 (Report on the formation of the JSO of the RDB of Serbia, unsigned, undated), p. 2.
3968 D212 (Transcript of testimony of Witness JF-029 before a local court on 24 October 2006), pp. 15-16, 19-20.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 687
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