Stanišić and Simatović convicted by the IRMCT

Jovica Stanišić was the Head of the State Security Service ("DB") of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia ("MUP").

Frank Simatović was employed in the Second administration of the DB.

Both men have been convicted by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) of various crimes including aiding and abetting murder - see the announcement of 30 June 2021.

A 10 page judgment summary is available as well as the Case Page.

The two men were arrested in March 2003 and it has therefore taken 18 years to arrive at this verdict. This was a retrial which commenced on 13 June 2017.

Sentences of 12 years imprisonment were imposed subject to credit for the time already spent in custody.

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1 July 2021