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...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...
...indictment addresses the lifeblood of a uniquely corrupt regime. By shedding light on the Byzantine sources of support for a government whose workings have long remained mysterious to the outside world, it may help the country unravel responsibility for the crimes of the past decade, not only in Serbia but everywhere the wars of the former Yugoslavia were fought...
...this zero-casualty logic that forced us from the bleeding streets of Mogadishu, that compelled us to wage a virtual war from the sky over Milosevic’s Serbia without even admitting the possibility of sending in ground forces, and that has now created the bizarre situation with our Chinese “friends,” in which the most powerful nation on earth has made an apology to a government whose reckless pilot forced our aircraft from the skies and then held our crew as, well, hostages...
...remains the world’s most stable democracy, as evidenced by our last election fiasco. We take politically stability for granted and thus fail to see the potential consequences of extraditing Milosevic for the nascent democratic movement in Serbia. Milosevic should be brought to justice and should pay the price for all the crimes he has committed, but it would be in the best interest of all involved for us to cooperate with the Serbian government. Regardless of the America’s status as the world’s only hegemonic power, it is wrong...
...crony emerged as the man whose testimony put him there. MIHALJ KERTES was chief of Customs from 1994 to 2000, placing him at the center of a criminal network that permeated the regime. It was through Kertes, investigators say, that as much as $4 billion in levies collected at Serbia's borders was diverted to Milosevic. Now, say Milosevic's lawyers, Kertes is telling all. To defend himself from that testimony, Milosevic said the stolen funds were not for personal gain but to arm Serbian rebels in Croatia and Bosnia. But that admission, the first ever, was welcomed...