The UN Court sentenced ex-secret service chief Milosevic to 15 years

The UN Court sentenced ex-secret service chief Milosevic to 15 years

The International Court of the United Nations in The Hague sentenced the former heads of the special services of Yugoslavia, Jovica Stanyšech and Franko Simatovych, to 15 years in prison. The court considered the appeal in their case and toughened their punishment.

Under Slobodan Miloševych, Stanyšech was the head of the security service of Yugoslavia, Simatovych – his deputy. Both were found guilty of numerous crimes during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia in the early 1990s.

In particular, as the court found, they were involved in the organization of the seizure of the town of Bosanski-Samac (now Šamac, Bosnia) by Serbian armed forces in 1992. After the capture of the city, mass looting, rape and torture of Bosniaks and Croats began there. Several civilians were killed.

The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia achieved the arrest and extradition of Stanyšech and Simatovich to The Hague in 2003. In 2013, the court acquitted them due to insufficient evidence of guilt. However, the appellate court appealed the acquittal, and the case was re-examined.

In 2021, the UN court ruled that Stanisech and Simatovich assisted Slobodan Milosevic in a conspiracy to expel Croats and Bosnian Muslims and expand the territory of Serbia. Then both of them received 12 years of imprisonment. Then the convicts themselves appealed the sentence, but on Wednesday the UN court not only confirmed the previous sentence, but also increased the term of imprisonment to 15 years. This sentence is final and not subject to appeal.

  • The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia operated from 1993 to 2017. Then he was replaced by the International Court of the United Nations.



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