Oliver Ivanov's murder, witness says he has come to court with the accused

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In this case, for involvement in Ivanovic's murder, which had occurred in January 2018, Marko Rossic, Nedelko Spasojevicq, Dragisa Markovic, Zarko Jovanovic, Silvana Arsovic and Rade Basara are being charged.

Likewise, Banovic said that during the period he had been in the position of the North Mitrovica Regenial Target Unit, he has not heard that accused Spasojevic has been part of any organised criminal group.

I said that I had my 14 investigators, the station had over 100 people, I didn't have time to deal with people's voices, so something like that about Spasojevic I haven't heard, I had my jobs”, he said, reports the “Law Bearment for Justice“

Initially, witness Banovic has answered the questions of accused Rade Basara, who has even proposed this witness, which he indicated was chief of the Basara accused.

He has also shown the internal organization of the unit and has shown the duties of investigative policemen. According to him, the Regional Protection Unit had no right to oversee the work of the Police Station.

Banovic has said that it never happened that accused Basara refuses any job assigned to him, and that there has never been a complaint for his work by prosecutor or citizen.

I had no remarks either in writing, nor did the prosecutor call me, nor has he been with disciplinary remarks”, Banovic said.

As for the process of sending material evidence to the Central Laboratory in Pristina, he said it is done at the prosecutor's order.

The prosecutor gives orders to investigators to deliver evidence to the Laborator in Pristina, with which I have always been notified and there I have never let anyone lead the evidence except for the one who is in charge of this evidence, each of our requests to the prosecutor, all of this is documented in evidence”, he said.

According to him, it is the prosecutor's obligation to determine who the suspect is, who the witness, which investigative actions should be taken.

On the day of the critical event, Banovic said he had been on an annual vacation and stressed that it was he who approved annual holidays for accused Basara.

But, specifically in December 2017, he said that he does not remember exactly the date when he approved the annual holiday for Basara.

I've approved most of the times the annual New Year's rest for “Rade Basares, because he had his family in the Republic of Croatia. I don't remember the exact date of approval, but he wouldn't use it if I didn't approve”, the same one said.

Banovic stated that when he returned from his annual holiday, the case in question had not yet been taken to the competence of war crimes investigators in Pristina, but, according to him, they have led the investigation.

Also, he said that when he returned from his annual holiday, accused Basara has been working on the task force for the case. He added that he has no knowledge of what actions on the critical day were undertaken by the regional entity until the Unit of War Crimes from Pristina had arrived.

Banovic has said that whenever he went to the annual holiday, Mirsada Mustafa had left as his replacement.

All in the end, witness Banovic said today in court he came along with the accused Basara, and for that he gave an excuse.

I've come with Rade Basaren because I didn't even know where this court is”, he said.

In advance, video recording was released in the room involving images on the “Brazil”, but technically there was no way to be seen. However, all defenders of the accused declared there is no need to be seen.

According to the chairman of the court, Valon Kurtaj, a short sequence is seen in this video as the late Ivanovic now passes around his party headquarters's “Brazil”

The defendant's defender, Marko Rosic, lawyer Mahmut Halimi after seeing a photo of this video-incision by prosecutor Burim Cerkini, stated that throughout the photo documentation and video footage they have seen so far, there has never been seen in any country his defence Rospi or his car.

“Although accused Marko Rossic has residence too close to the subject building, never in any place nor his Santa car- Fe KIA can't be seen, so neither the car nor the accused Marko Rospic, for which he allegedly conveyed the movement of the late man and informed the people who committed the crime”, Halimi said.

In this hearing, the court has partially approved the lawyer's proposal Korenica to be invited to witness Mirsada Mustafa in quality.

Otherwise, the initial session was held on February 11, 2020, while the Constitutional Court in Pristina, on April 6, 2020, had refused requests for dropping the indictment on December 27, 2019, and objections to the evidence.

Following the complaints of four lawyers, the Court of Appeals had approved their complaints and the case had been returned to restoration and the Foundation was required to eliminate contradictions, enabling the prosecutor to declare or correct and fulfill the indictment in order to comply with the 241 KPK article.

Then, on November 10, 2020, the Special Prosecutor had compiled the indictment, under which Nedeljko Spasojevicq, Marko Rosic, Rade Basara and Silvana Arsovic were charged with committing criminal work “Data and organisation of the criminal group organised<1> by Article 283, par.3 related to par.1 of the Penal Code, related to criminal acts <x2Vraspes” from Article 179, Penal Code and <x>

According to the indictment, indictees Nedjlo Spasojevic, Marko Rosic, Rade Basara and Silvana Arsovic are charged with co-operating with indictees Zeiko Bojq, Zvonko Veselinovic and Milan Radojic, who are on the run and two other unknown defendants, acting as a criminal group aimed at expanding control in the northern part of Mitrovica, both in political life and general activity of the organised criminal group, have acted deliberately and known to carry out the criminal offense, where each of the defendants has now occurred in the day of Oliver Ivanovi's death, having committed concrete actions in the political life and general activity of this group, and the prosecution group has now felt like a criminal murder group.

Indictee Dragisa Markovic is charged with “Statement of official secrecy” by Article 433, par. 2.1 Penal Code. Markovic and Zarko Jovanovic are also charged with “Using official duty in co-ordination” by Article 422, par.1 related to par.2, subpar. 2.2 connected to Article 31 of Penal Code.

Also, accused Jovanovic is charged with criminal work “retaining ownership, control or unauthorized possession of weapons” by Article 374, par.1 of the Criminal Code. The accused Nedeljko Spasojevicc, on the other hand, is also charged with criminal work “holding ownership, control or unauthorized possession of weapons” by Article 374, par.2 related to par.1 of the Penal Code.