Amended indictment for murder of Slavko Curuvija

BELGRADE - The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime raised a new, amended indictment against four members of the State Security Service (DB), therein charging the defendants with the murder of journalist and owner of Dnevni telegraf daily newspaper Slavko Curuvija in 1999, Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told Tanjug.

After the amended investigation was carried out on a warrant issued by the court, the Prosecutor's Office pressed charges against then DB head Radomir Markovic, head of DB Belgrade Centre Milan Radonjic, chief intelligence inspector Ratko Romic of the DB Second Administration and member of the DB reserve staff Milan Kurak.

The indictment charges the defendants with the murder of journalist and owner of Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin papers Slavko Curuvija for base motives on April 11, 1999, whereby the indictees committed a criminal act of aggravated murder which entails a prison sentence of 30 to 40 years.

Markovic is charged with incitement to crime while the other defendants are charged with complicity in the crime, Radisavljevic specified and added that investigative activities have been conducted in the course of the amended investigation as requested by the court.

He noted that the indictment filed to the Special Department of the Belgrade High Court and that its revision is underway.

The Special Court in Belgrade returned the indictment filed on June 6 for amended investigation on July 24, 2014.

The court will revise the amended indictment and should it be confirmed, the defendants and their legal teams will have the right to appeal the decision to the Belgrade Court of Appeal.

After the indictment becomes valid, the court will schedule a trial and a preparatory hearing,...