Career
He was 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. During his service he acted in the role of an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (Central Intelligence Agency). 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 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.
He and Simatović were charged and acquitted of the following crimes:However, it was reported in the New York Times that his acquittal and that of Franko Simatović had been overturned on 15 December 2015 by a United Nations" ICTY Appeals Chamber (presiding judge, Fausto Pocar) which vacated the initial verdict deemed faulty as it was based on an insistence that the men could only be guilty if they "specifically directed" the crimes. The two men were prohibited from returning to Serbia and are being held at The Hague. Croatia
Baćin massacre
Massacres in Lipovača, Vukovići and Saborsko
Škabrnja massacre
Bruška massacre
Dalj massacre
Erdut massacre
Bosnia
Bosanski Šamac killings
Doboj massacre
Sanski Most killings
Srebrenica massacre
Zvornik massacre
Participant of the charge, that Stanišić was part of a "joint criminal enterprise" including former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and other Serbian politicians, was concluded the trial of Milan Martić.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency submitted a sealed document to the court attesting to his role as an undercover operative helping to bring peace to the region.
However, it was reported in the New York Times that his acquittal and that of Franko Simatović had been overturned on 15 December 2015 by a United Nations" ICTY Appeals Chamber (presiding judge, Fausto Pocar). On 22 December 2015, Simatović and Stanišić were granted temporary release.
The release date was not made public. Evidently back in Serbia, the two must report to a local police station in Belgrade every day and surrender their passports to the Serbian Ministry of Justice.
The case is now being handled by the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT, which is taking over the ICTY"s remaining cases as it prepares to close in 2017.
Evidently back in Serbia, the two must report to a local police station in Belgrade every day and surrender their passports to the Serbian justice ministry. Per ICTY, the judges named for the retrial are Judges Burton Hall, Seon Ki Park and Solomy Balungi Bossa.
