Press release on the judgment of the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals on appeals filed by Stanišić and Simatović

The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals amended the Trial Chamber’s judgement, sentencing Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović to 15 years in prison for crimes committed in BiH and the murder of civilians in Daljska Planina in Croatia in June 1992.

The Appeals Chamber found that senior intelligence officers of the State Security Service of the Republic of Serbia Stanišić and Simatović, as participants of the joint criminal enterprise, were guilty of ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs from areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
 
Other participants in this joint criminal enterprise were Slobodan Milošević, Milan Martić, Milan Babić, Goran Hadžić, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, Momčilo Krajišnik, Biljana Plavšić and Željko Ražnatović (Arkan).
 
However, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration regrets that Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović were not convicted of all crimes committed on the territory of the Republic of Croatia, i.e. the most serious and cruel crimes committed by the Greater Serbian regime in Vukovar and Škabrnja.
 
The existence of a joint criminal enterprise for crimes committed on the territory of the Republic of Croatia had already been established in the judgements against Milan Babić and Milan Martić, and Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, along with the highest officials of the Republic of Serbia, headed by Slobodan Milošević, were also involved in them.

News