The Belgrade court had sentenced Milorad Ulemek aka Legija, former commander of the now dissolved special purposes unit "The Red Berets", to 15 years in prison and Radomir Markovic, former head of the State Security Service, to 10 years for deliberately causing a traffic accident on the Ibar Highway in October 1999, in which four leaders of the Serbian Renewal Movement of the present Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic were killed.
Draskovic described the Supreme Court's decision as "the result of a political deal between the serial killer Milorad Ulemek Legija and top officials of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior and the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA)."
Dragoljub Todorovic, the lawyer representing the families of those killed in the accident, told Radio B92 that the Supreme Court's decision was scandalous and the result of the Belgrade District Court's incompetence to bring to a close a trial that had begun six years ago.