The Belgrade District Court also sentenced a former head of the Serbian Security Service, Radomir Markovic, to ten years in jail for assisting the assassins.
The assassins, former members of the Serbian Interior Ministry's Special Operations Unit -- Nenad Ilic, Nenad Bujosevic, Dusko Maricic, Branko Bercek and Leonid Milivojevic -- each received the sentence of 15 years' imprisonment.
Former Customs Administration chief Mihalj Kertes will spend three years in prison and former officials of Belgrade traffic police, Dragisa Dinic and Vidan Mijailovic, two years and one year respectively.
The attempt on the life of the then strongest opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, who is now the Foreign Minister of Serbia-Montenegro, was carried out on the Ibar road when a truck carrying gravel swerved into the motorcade with Draskovic and his aides. Draskovic was seriously wounded while Zvonko Osmajlic, Vucko Rakocevic, Dragan Vusurovic and Veselin Boskovic, the brother of Draskovic's wife Danica, were killed in the accident.
Milorad Ulemek Legija is being tried in Belgrade in three other cases - the March 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the murder of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic, and an attempt on the life of Vuk Draskovic in the Montenegrin town of Budva in 2000. He is also being tried as a member of the notorious Zemun mob clan which is believed to have committed several murders, abductions and acts of terrorism.