Another secret witness, a Croatian citizen, codenamed "C-48" testified at the Milosevic trial on Monday and Tuesday. C-48 was allegedly the general manager of the Royal nightclub and casino in Novi Sad between 1992 and 2000.  Although, Mr. C-48's name never appeared on any of the registration papers for that business.

C-48 says that somebody else, a 3rd person, was listed as the manager of the Royal because if the Government of Serbia were to find out about the massive tax evasion that the Royal was engaged in he, as its manager, could get in trouble.

C-48 claims to have worked for the DB of Serbia although they never gave him identification papers or paid him or anything like that. C-48 says that he helped the DB break into his friend's house and that he helped to organize an assault on an old woman. Other than that C-48 didn't have direct knowledge of anything. All the rest of his testimony was things that he says he heard other people saying.

In order to testify about these things that he says he heard other people saying he had to read from notes that were allegedly based on his alleged diary. It was strange that Prosecutor Nice seemed better acquainted with the notes from the alleged diary than the witness who allegedly wrote the notes. Mr. Nice constantly had to remind the witness to put his finger on certain parts of the notes so that he wouldn't lose his place during the examination in chief.

Instead of having the actual diary itself C-48 had notes that he had allegedly transcribed from the diary.

When asked if he could obtain the original diary C-48 requested to go into private session. When they came out of private session it was apparent that the "original diary" had been conveniently "destroyed."

To make matters more interesting C-48 wrote his notes on another diary which caused Mr. Kwon to wonder if Mr. C-48 had been attempting to make his notes look like the alleged "original diary" that had been conveniently "destroyed."

C-48 said that he heard Milosevic talking at the Royal about the alleged "greater Serbia plan" and that he had written that down in his alleged diary. So Milosevic asked C-48 on what date he had heard this. C-48 explained that he didn't write any dates in his diary and so he didn't know when Milosevic was there, but he thought that it was some time in March of 1993.

Unfortunately, for Mr. C-48, Milosevic was never even in Novi Sad in March of 1993 and so C-48 could not have heard Milosevic saying anything at the Royal in Novi Sad in March of 1993 because Milosevic wasn't there to say it.

C-48 was convicted and served prison time for armed robbery, but every time the topic turned to C-48's criminal past the so-called "trial" went into closed session. Why should it be a secret that C-48 is a criminal? We don't even know who C-48 is! So what difference does it make to him if we know that he is a criminal? The only point of going into closed session is to deny information to the public that has bearing on the credibility of the witness.

In a nutshell C-48 was a secret witness, with a criminal past, who testified about things that he claims to have heard other people saying. The basis for his testimony came from an alleged diary that he says he wrote in but no longer has that is if it ever existed to begin with. All C-48 had were some notes that he says he copied out of the alleged diary, and that is where most of his testimony comes from.

I have to wonder what the point of the concealing the identity of this witness was? Everybody who worked at or was a regular at the Royal nightclub/casino in Novi Sad during the mid to late 1990s would know who the general manager of the club was, and therefore would know the identity of the witness... that is if this secret witness was even telling the truth about who he was.