The motion for investigation alleges that Cesic Rojs, while holding a senior position at the Ministry of Defence from 1994 to 1996, made it possible for Rajic to receive his salary regularly without coming to work and to live, together with his family, in an army hotel in Split free of charge.
Cesic Rojs did so by giving, at Rajic's urging, a verbal order to Rajic's superior, thus causing financial damage to the Ministry of Defence in the amount of at least 47,677 kuna (approximately 6,500 euros).
Rajic was working in the Split office of the Defence Ministry at the time.
The decision to launch an investigation was made after the Supreme Court upheld an appeal by the Municipal Prosecutor and quashed a ruling by the County Court that dismissed the motion for investigation filed in September last year. The case was referred back to the Split court in February this year for reconsideration.
Rajic, an ethnic Croat from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was indicted by the Hague tribunal in 1995 for his role in a slaughter of Bosnian Muslim civilians in Stupni Do, central Bosnia, in October 1993. He was arrested in 2003 on an international arrest warrant issued by the tribunal and transferred to The Hague in June of that year. Before his arrest, he had been living in Split under an assumed name.
On May 8 this year the tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to 12 years in prison following a plea agreement with the prosecution. At the sentencing hearing, Rajic apologised for what he had done and offered his sympathy to the families of the victims.