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Kojić during the early SAO SBWS operations and gave him instructions. 5088 Milenko Lemić
reported that on 16 February 1993 members of the SVK reserve force invaded the RSK MUP
building in Vukovar. 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 (vicepremier
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) and others be removed, because of alleged
cooperation with the RDB of the Serbian MUP. 5089 Intelligence Report P1652 from early June
1995 held that 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)”. 5090 The influence of Stanišic through Kostić in the SBWS is
very apparent when, at the beginning of August 1991, Kostić gave the order to the police and
the SAO SBWS government to move to Dalj. 5091
2389. With regard to the SDG, the Trial Chamber found that there were numerous links
between this group and both Accused. The findings include that (i) the Serbian DB financed
the involvement of the SDG in operations Pauk in 1994/1995, Trnovo/Treskavica in 1995,
Banja Luka in 1995, and SBWS in 1995, by paying per diems to a number of SDG members;
(ii) the Serbian DB remunerated SDG members outside of particular operations between 1994
and 1995; (iii) the Serbian DB supported the SDG in Operation Pauk in 1994/1995 by their
presence on the ground and involvement in the Pauk headquarters; (iv) the Serbian DB
supported the SDG in operation Trnovo/Treskavica in 1995 through the on-the-ground
support of JATD official Vasilije Mijović; (v) the Serbian DB supplied the SDG in the 1995
SBWS operation, by on at least two occasions supplying SDG members with, inter alia,
ammunition and uniforms; (vi) the Serbian DB provided support to the SDG outside of
particular operations between 1994 and 1995 by arranging for their medical care; (vii)
Simatović organised the SDG’s involvement in the Pauk operation in 1994/1995; and (viii)
Simatović, organised the involvement of the SDG in the Trnovo/Treskavica operation in
1995. 5092
2390. In this regard, I also take into account other evidence, which the majority for various
reasons rejected as inconclusive. For example, Witness JF-030 testified that a few days after
the attack on Dalj, in front of the Borovo Selo School, Arkan and two other Serbian DB
5088 See chapter 6.4.4.
5089 See chapters 6.7.3 and 6.7.4.
5090 See chapter 6.5.3.
5091 P401 (Witness JF-032, witness statement, 17 May 1999), p. 6.
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