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2227. On 18 February 1993, Milenko Lemić, an operative with the RDB centre in Novi Sad,
Vojvodina, 4714 reported that on 16 February 1993, members of the SVK reserve force invaded
the RSK MUP building in Vukovar. 4715 According to the report by the witness, the SVK held
a meeting in the MUP building, with inter alia Arkan, Milan Milanović (a.k.a. Mrgud), and
Stevo Bogić (vice-premier of the RSK in charge of the work of the MUP), which resulted in a
demand that Ilija Kojić (assistant minister of the RSK MUP), the entire leadership of the
Vukovar Secretariat, two operatives dealing with vehicle theft, and the desk officer for vehicle
registration, be removed, because of alleged cooperation with the RDB of the Serbian
MUP. 4716
2228. The Trial Chamber also recalls Intelligence Report P1652 from early June 1995,
reviewed in chapter 6.5.3 according to which Kojić, Mrgud and Arkan, supported by the
Serbian MUP, “prevented the flow of money to Knin”, and Kojić and Mrgud made all the
decisions “under the patronage of the Serbian MUP (Jovica Stanišić)”.
2229. The Trial Chamber will now move to the evidence concerning Radoslav/Ante Kostić.
Radoslav Kostić began working as advisor at the Republican SUP DB as of 1 December
1990. 4717 On 21 June 1991, he was deployed to work on other tasks and duties. 4718 On 5 June
1992, Jovica Stanišić appointed him senior advisor at the Serbian MUP DB. 4719
2230. The Trial Chamber recalls the evidence of Witness JF-026, a Bosnian Serb from
Zvornik, 4720 reviewed in chapter 6.4.4. in relation to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992 that at least
up to April 1992, 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. The witness was
not aware of when Kostić became a Serbian DB official. Borislav Bogunović testified that he
met Kostić for the first time in 1993 at the MUP building in Srem-Baranja, but he did not
really know who he was. 4721 On 4 October 1994, Milan Martić complained to Slobodan
Milošević about an incident in which he was threatened by a gang of fifteen men and
4714 Milenko Lemić, T. 13557-13558.
4715 D388 (Chart of exhibits for Milenko Lemić), p. 7; D398 (Report from the RDB centre in Novi Sad to the
Republic of Serbia, MUP, State Security Department, signed by Milenko Lemić and Zdenko Pinćir, 18 February
1993, signed and forwarded by Popivoda to Stanišić, 19 February 1993), pp. 2-3.
4716 D398 (Report from the RDB centre in Novi Sad to the Republic of Serbia, MUP, State Security Department,
signed by Milenko Lemić and Zdenko Pinćir, 18 February 1993, signed and forwarded by Popivoda to Stanišić,
19 February 1993), pp. 2-3.
4717 P406 (Series of Documents Concerning Radoslav Kostić), pp. 1-4.
4718 P406 (Series of Documents Concerning Radoslav Kostić), p. 5.
4719 P406 (Series of Documents Concerning Radoslav Kostić), pp. 6-7.
4720 P1700 (Witness JF-026, witness statement, 16 December 2008), para. 1; P1654 (Pseudonym sheet for
Witness JF-026); P2507 (Background information on Witness JF-026).
4721 Borislav Bogunović, T. 6030-6031.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 796
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