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The Court of Appeal of Serbia in Belgrade released yesterday the four former members of the State Security Service of Serbia, accused of murdering the journalist, Slavko Quruvija, in April 1999.
The court overturned the verdict of the first instance and acquitted Radomir Marković of the charges of incitement to aggravated murder, as well as Millan Radonjic, Miroslav Kurakin and Ratko Romić of the charges of complicity in the commission of aggravated murder.
"In the absence of direct and indirect evidence, which comprehensively proves that Markovic, Radonjic, Burak and Romic are guilty of this criminal offense, the Court of Appeal finds that the charges in the indictment have not been proven absolutely", the decision states of the court.
Quruvija was the owner and editor of "Dnevni telegraf" (Daily Telegraph) and of the weekly newspaper, "Evropljanin", (The European).
Slavko Quruvija was killed on April 11, 1999 in the center of Belgrade, in front of the entrance to the building in which he lived. He was a great critic of the then Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic.
The trial for his murder began in June 2015, almost 17 years after his death.
In 2019, the Special Court in Belgrade found four former members of the State Security Service of Serbia guilty of his murder. The court said that his direct killer was an unknown person.
Marković, former head of the State Security (SSH), was sentenced to 30 years in prison for inciting aggravated murder.
Radonjic, former head of the SSH center in Belgrade, was also sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated murder. Former members of the State Security Ratko Romić and Miroslav Kurak were sentenced to 20 years in prison each for aggravated murder.
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