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activities of the unit in Baranja, stating that, inter alia, young soldiers who had been trained
by JATD instructors were placed under the command of the Baranja Division. 4293
2051. Mladen Karan, a retired counter-intelligence officer of the SSNO, 4294 testified that
after the fall of the RSK in August 1995, he was reassigned to the 11th Corps in Vukovar. 4295
On 28 August 1995, General Lončar handed the witness an order signed by Mrgud, for the
immediate removal of 25 security officers, including General Gligorević, from the 11th Corps
area. The next day, Lieutenant Colonel Kraguljac conveyed an “order” from Radojica
Božović, according to which Božović and Gavra, an RDB official, were chief security officers
for the 11th Corps; this “order” was conveyed to the witness’s subordinates without his
knowledge. At a subsequent meeting, Lončar told Karan that he resented “this dualism of
command”, but was completely helpless. 4296 On 30 August 1995, Lončar asked the witness to
come to his office and in the presence of Obrad Stevanović and Branko Ćurčić, from the
Serbian MUP, and Gavro, ordered the witness, together with about 21 security service
members, to leave the 11th Corps area. 4297 The witness did not know what reasons the Serbian
DB or the MUP officials had to insist on his and other officers’ removal from the region. 4298
On their way, the witness and other officers were accompanied by men from the “Boco
Squad” who, as he later learnt, belonged to the Skorpions. 4299
2052. In an interview conducted on 30 September 1995, Predrag Milisavljević from the
Security Organ of the SVK, stated that he had been fired from work and that he had been in
pain over that. He further said that the Serbian DB, Frenki and Jovica, were “in charge now”,
and that Lončar was “nothing but a pawn”. Frenki, Stanišić, Božović, and Filipović were the
leaders there. Boro Ivanović and Colonel Petrović from the VJ were also there and acted as
coordinators between Perišić and Lončar. Milisavljević stated that he was probably registered
on their payroll but that they would not take him back to work at Kneza Miloša street. The DB
4292 P3195 (Series of Documents concerning Nikola Pilipović), Dispatch to the Serbian MUP RDB JATD, signed
by Zvezdan Jovanović, 23 October 1995, p. 12.
4293 D1623 (Series of documents concerning Djurica Banjac), pp. 12-13.
4294 Mladen Karan, T. 17669-17671, 17679-17681; P3092 (Mladen Karan personnel file, signed Dragoljub
Djukić, 8 April 1996), p. 3; P3093 (Note on Mladen Karan’s work performance, signed Veljko Bosanac,
undated), p. 1; P3094 (Report on Mladen Karan, author Rade Rašeta, SVK Security Department, 3 February
1995), p. 1; P3096 (Statement on inhibition of work of 11th Corps security organs by members of RDB MUP
Serbia, Mladen Karan, undated), pp. 3, 6-8.
4295 Mladen Karan, T. 17873-17874.
4296 P3096 (Statement on inhibition of work of 11th Corps security organs by members of RDB MUP Serbia,
signed by Mladen Karan, undated), pp. 3, 5-6.
4297 Mladen Karan, T. 17873-17874, 17879-17884; P3096 (Statement on inhibition of work of 11th Corps
security organs by members of RDB MUP Serbia, signed by Mladen Karan, undated), pp. 4-9.
4298 Mladen Karan, T. 17882, 17884.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 731
30 May 2013