Intercepted Conversations

Investigator Mirko Simonjic said that the conversations were intercepted as per an order issued by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, in the period from October 18 to November 18, 2013, adding that his other colleagues also secretly followed those persons.
 
“Maybe it’s not that ra… you know…” one of the two Markovics said in a conversation recorded on October 26, 2013.
 
In a conversation between Bosiljko Markovic and his brother on October 29, 2013, the following is mentioned: “Pedja is guilty of that. She was 14-years-old.”
 
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, charges Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic, former members of the Kotor-Varos Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having raped a minor in Kotor-Varos municipality.
 
The indictment alleges that S-4 was 14 at the time and that Mirko Bozic drove a minivan by which they travelled to Orahova village, while Predrag Cicmanovic took S-4 out of the house and took her into the minivan, where she was raped several times.
 
The SIPA investigator said that Mirko Bozic’s conversations were intercepted and recorded as well. Among other things, Bozic said that he “has kept quiet about some things for 20 years”. In those conversations Bozic said that he received an invitation to give a statement to the Prosecution of BiH and that he gave his statement as agreed.
 
It was also mentioned that he spent his own money to pay attorneys and that he asked for a certain amount of money for the statement he gave.
 
“If they give me the money it will be OK. Otherwise, I do not know what to do,” Bozic said in a telephone conversation with an unknown man on October 30, 2013.
 
The trial is due to continue on November 4.