The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal established that he had participated in a joint criminal enterprise led by former Yugoslav and Serbian ruler Slobodan Milosevic in a campaign to drive away 800,000 Albanians from Kosovo.
At the time relevant to the indictment, Djordjevic was the head of the Serbian Interior Ministry's public security department and Assistant Interior Minister.
He was found guilty of the mass murder of at least 724 Kosovo Albanians, including the execution of 14 women and children in Podujevo, and of massacres against more than one hundred men in Mala Krusa, 45 women, children and elderly people in Djakovica and Suva Reka as well as of covering up crimes, including the transfer of bodies of victims from mass graves from Kosovo to several sites in Serbia.
Djordjevic, who was arrested in 2007 in Montenegro, where he was hiding, is the eighth Serbian official to be put on trial for Kosovo atrocities before the ICTY and the sixth one to be found guilty.