BELGRADE, April 14 (Hina) - Marko Milosevic, the son of former Yugoslav president and indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal Slobodan Milosevic, offered Serbian mobsters shortly after Milosevic's ouster in October 2000 five million
German marks to kill Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, a witness at the trial of Djindjic's assassins said on Wednesday, the Beta news agency reported.
BELGRADE, April 14 (Hina) - Marko Milosevic, the son of former Yugoslav
president and indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal Slobodan
Milosevic, offered Serbian mobsters shortly after Milosevic's ouster
in October 2000 five million German marks to kill Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic, a witness at the trial of Djindjic's
assassins said on Wednesday, the Beta news agency reported.#L#
In a testimony given at Belgrade's Special Court behind closed doors,
witness Zoran Vukojevic reiterated his statement given during the
investigation. Beta unofficially reported that Vukojevic said that
Milosevic's son Marko offered mobsters five million German marks to
kill Djindjic shortly after 5 October 2000.
At the time, the principal indictee in Djindjic's slaying, Milorad
Lukovic aka Legija, former commander of Serbian special police units,
organised some people from the Zemun mobster clan, who provided
additional security for and protected Djindjic.
The indictment alleges that Lukovic and other people accused of
Djindjic's assassination were provided with information about
Djindjic's movements by a former employee of the Serbian Interior
Ministry's State Security Service and indictee in the trial, who had
connections with some members of Djindjic's security team.
The trial resumes tomorrow.
(Hina) rml