Jovica Stanišić
| Jovica Stanišić | |
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| Јовица Станишић | |
| Head of the State Security Service | |
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In office 1 January 1992 – 26 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Zoran Janaćković |
| Succeeded by | Radomir Marković |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jovan Stanišić 30 July 1950 Ratkovo, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Citizenship | Serbian |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Education | Faculty of Political Sciences |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Occupation | Intelligence officer |
Jovan "Jovica" Stanišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Станишић; born 30 July 1950) is a Serbian former intelligence officer who served as the head of the state security agency SDB within the Serbian Ministry of the Interior from 1991 until 1998. He was initially acquitted on 30 May 2013 by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his role in the wars in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina but the appeal was overturned.
Stanišić was arrested by Serbian authorities in 2003 and handed over to the ICTY soon after. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. His case was processed together with that of Franko Simatović. He has been charged with persecution, murder, deportation and inhumane acts.
According to the indictment, special Serbian paramilitary units, including Arkan's Tigers, Red Berets and Scorpions, were secretly established by or with the assistance of the Serbian State Security from no later than April 1991 and continued until 1995. They were established for the purpose of undertaking special military actions in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, intended to forcibly remove non-Serbs from those areas. These secret units were trained in various training centres and were then deployed to locations in Croatia and Bosnia where they were subordinated to other "Serb Forces", in particular the local Serb Territorial Defence.
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