Radomir Marković

Former Serbian State Security Unit for Special Operations, commander Milorad "Legija" Ulemek, refused to answer questions about the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija at the Belgrade Court of Appeal.

Legija told the court that he stands by his 2014 statement from the investigation and his 2016 statement from the first trial.

Former head of Serbian State Security Radomir Markovic repeated to the appeal court that he is not guilty for the 1999 murder of the Serbian journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija.

Markovic claimed that Curuvija was only put under state surveillance "due to his contacts with foreign intelligence agencies …The task of every state security is to establish the nature of these contacts".

Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday found four former Serbian state security employees guilty after a retrial of the murder in 1999 of journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija, who was known for his opposition to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

"When I came to [daily newspaper] Borba in 1990, he was a reporter and political analyst, and known for writing a couple of pamphlets, one of which I remember was about the people from Goli Otok [political prison in Socialist Yugoslavia]," Gunjic recalled.

The Chairman of Serbia's Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists during Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Veran Matic, told BIRN that investigators still face grave risks doing their job.

After reading the verdict, the president of the Trial Chamber announced that the accused Radomir Markovic and Milan Radonjic were sentenced to 30 years in prison. Miroslav Kurak and Ratko Romic received 20 years each, Prva TV reported on Friday.

BELGRADE - The Court of Appeal in Belgrade confirmed an indictment against four members of the former State Security Service (DB) accused of murdering Slavko Curuvija, journalist and owner of Belgrade-based daily Dnevni Telegraf, in 1999.

This decision rejected an appeal of the accused and rendered the indictment legally valid, and the trial should start soon.

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.

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.

BELGRADE - The special court in Belgrade returned for an additional investigation the indictment against the four former members of the State Security Service (DB), accused of murdering Slavko Curuvija - the journalist and owner of Dnevni Telegraf.