BELGRADE, April 2 (Hina)- In a complaint against a court ruling on his month-long detention, the former Serbian and Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, has admitted that Yugoslavia helped Croatian and Bosnian Serb rebels with
weapons and ammunition, which could not be stated as a budgetary item "due to state interests" and because it was a "state secret." According to his appeal, the same applied to the cost of equipping public security and special anti-terrorist forces with light arms to helicopters and other equipment. Commenting on the court's explanation that he had to remain in custody due to "the extremely large amount of gain," Milosevic says the funds were used for "the Army of Republika Srpska, for the bodies of security, for the Army of Republika Srpska Krajina, for helping people across the Drina, for textile, metal and other workers who were financed through the Beogradska Bank under the
BELGRADE, April 2 (Hina)- In a complaint against a court ruling on
his month-long detention, the former Serbian and Yugoslav
president, Slobodan Milosevic, has admitted that Yugoslavia helped
Croatian and Bosnian Serb rebels with weapons and ammunition, which
could not be stated as a budgetary item "due to state interests" and
because it was a "state secret."
According to his appeal, the same applied to the cost of equipping
public security and special anti-terrorist forces with light arms
to helicopters and other equipment.
Commenting on the court's explanation that he had to remain in
custody due to "the extremely large amount of gain," Milosevic says
the funds were used for "the Army of Republika Srpska, for the
bodies of security, for the Army of Republika Srpska Krajina, for
helping people across the Drina, for textile, metal and other
workers who were financed through the Beogradska Bank under the
most difficult social conditions of total blockade."
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