PROSECUTION OFFERS REPORT ON MONEY TRANSFER AS EVIDENCE

PROSECUTION OFFERS REPORT ON MONEY TRANSFER AS EVIDENCE
ONASA - March 3, 2003

THE HAGUE, March 3 (ONASA) - Trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague Tribunal resumed today with discussion about financial reports which prosecution intends to use to prove that the accused, while in power, controlled the payment operations and thus the institutions the money was intended for. Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice demanded that the two reports by a Norwegian expert working for the Hague prosecution be accepted as reports by a court expert and included in the evidence. One of the amicus curiae Stephen Kay questioned the expert's impartiality, since he works for the prosecution. Milosevic emphasized that by using these reports the prosecution wants to create confusion by linking unconventional and sometimes illegal activity of state institutions in Serbia and Yugoslavia under economic sanctions directly with him.

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