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...unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
...imposing a variety of quasi-legal levies at Serbia's borders, Kertes amassed billions of dollars in cash and confiscated property, which he then redistributed to Milosevic and his top aides for use in whatever project the regime had going - from electoral campaigns to, allegedly, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Significantly, he kept receipts. "Kertes was the second-most important man in the country," recalls Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former paramilitary trainer from the Balkan wars who led the armed squad that detained the customs chief on the day after Serbia's October revolution as he frantically shredded documents in his office...
...There is the larger question of Milosevic's role in war crimes. The ex-President's startling admission - made last week in a written response to the charges - that the money from Kertes' office was used not for personal gain but to fund Serb rebel armies in Croatia and Bosnia was the first time that the strongman had acknowledged Belgrade's financial role in fomenting the Balkan wars...
...disposal, it would rarely need to use it—its mere presence would be a remarkable deterrent against would-be aggressors. In last Sunday’s New York Times, Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, explained that the renewed violence in Bosnia is a “reaction” to “a new administration perceived as more passive in the Balkans.” Militants become belligerent when they know that they will get away with it. Knowing that U.S. peacekeepers were ready and willing to intervene against them would force...
...imposing a variety of quasi-legal levies at Serbia's borders, Kertes amassed billions of dollars in cash and confiscated property, which he then redistributed to Milosevic and his top aides for use in whatever project the regime had going - from electoral campaigns to, allegedly, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Significantly, he kept receipts. "Kertes was the second most important man in the country," recalls Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former paramilitary trainer from the Balkan wars who led the armed squad that detained the customs chief on the day after Serbia's October revolution as he frantically shredded documents in his office...