Reuters
July 6, 2001
MILOSEVIC-ERA SECURITY CHIEF JAILED FOR ONE YEAR
Belgrade (Reuters) - A Yugoslav court on Friday jailed Rade Markovic,
the feared Serbian secret police chief under Slobodan Milosevic, for one
year for revealing state secrets.
Markovic is the first senior Milosevic ally to be convicted and
imprisoned since reformers ousted the former Yugoslav president in a
mass uprising last October.
Two of Markovic's former police associates were also sentenced to one
year in jail while a third accused received a sentence of one year and
four months.
Markovic was arrested in February on suspicion of orchestrating a 1999
motorway car crash intended to kill then opposition leader Vuk
Draskovic. Draskovic escaped with minor injuries, but four aides were
killed.
It later emerged Markovic was also being investigated for revealing
state secrets. It is not known whether he will also face a trial
relating to the crash.
Several former associates of Milosevic -- who was handed over to the
U.N. war crimes tribunal last week -- are under criminal investigation,
some in custody, for offences ranging from embezzlement to suspected
murder of political opponents.
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