Gotovina and Markac were found guilty of persecution, deportation, plunder of property, wanton destruction, murder and inhumane acts, and were acquitted of forcible transfer.
In their closing statements in August 2010, prosecutors recommended that Gotovina be sentenced to 27 years in prison, Markac to 23 years and Cermak to 17 years, while the defence called upon the trial chamber to acquit their clients on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove their guilt on any of the counts of the indictment.
The trial opened on March 11, 2008. Cermak and Markac have been in the custody of the Hague tribunal since March 11, 2004 and Gotovina since December 10, 2005.
The verdicts can be appealed.