January 31, 2019<\/p>\n
Milenko Mandi\u0107, deputy prosecutor for organised crime, said in his closing statement that the indictment, filed at the end of 2014, had been proven during the trial, and that the four accused members of the State Security service, led by head of the service Radomir Markovi\u0107, had murdered \u0106uruvija on 11th<\/sup>\u00a0April 1999, according to an order issued by an unnamed person \u201cfrom the highest structures of the Serbian government\u201d and that they acted as an organised criminal group, with \u201cpermission to murder\u201d.<\/p>\n Alongside Markovi\u0107, also on trial since mid-2015 accused of the murder are Milan Radonji\u0107, former Chief of the Belgrade Office of the State Security service, Ratko Romi\u0107, a former intelligence officer, and Miroslav Kurak, a member of the State Security reserves, who is being tried in absentia.<\/p>\n The lawyers of the defendants nevertheless claimed in their closing statements that the deputy prosecutor had not provided evidence proving that they organised and carried out this crime and, as such, proposed that the trial chamber issue a not-guilty verdict.<\/p>\n The defence claims that the entire trial has been rigged, that the case was launched for political reasons, accompanied by media and political pressure exerted on the trial chamber, and that those who killed Slavka \u0106uruvija are not among the indictees in the dock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 31, 2019 The prosecutor in the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko \u0106uruvija has sought that those accused of this murder be sentenced to a maximum sentence of 40 years. The defenders of the accused, meanwhile, requested that all four suspects be acquitted. Milenko Mandi\u0107, deputy prosecutor for organised crime, said in his closing statement that the indictment, filed at the end of 2014, had been proven during the trial, and that the four accused members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en","tag-trial-for-the-murder-of-slavko-curuvija"],"yoast_head":"\n