Ćuruvija case indictment returned for further probe

Ćuruvija case indictment returned for further probe

BELGRADE -- The Special Court returned for additional investigation the indictment against former members of the State Security (DB), accused of murdering Slavko Ćuruvija.

The pre-trial chamber gave the prosecutor's office for organized crime a three-day deadline to order the additional investigation that is to shed more light on the case, attorney Zora Dobričanin-Nikodinović, who is representing two of the four accused, told Tanjug on Thursday.

She added that the court accepted the objections that the defense attorneys put forward in their response to the indictment, brought in early June this year.

The lawyer noted that the Appellate Court accepted the complaint that the defense submitted to the ruling extending the detention for her clients Milan Radonjić and Ratko Romić and ordered the prosecutor to reconsider the reasons for their detention.

The prosecutor's office for organized crime issued the indictment against the four members of the DB on June 6 on suspicion that they killed Ćuruvija on April 11, 1999.

The four accused are: then head of the DB Radomir Marković, head of the DB centre in Belgrade Milan Radonjić, chief intelligence inspector with the DB's department Ratko Romić and member of the department reserve Miroslav Kurak.

They are accused of committing an aggravated murder.

Marković is accused of inciting the crime and others of executing it.

Radonjić and Romić have been in detention since the day of their arrest on January 13, and Kurak has been out of the police's reach and an international warrant has been issued for him.

Marković is serving a maximum prison sentence...