United Nations judges have expanded the conviction of two former allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, sentencing them to 15 years in the last case before the tribunal in The Hague dating from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The sentences of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic were raised from 12 to 15 years on Wednesday as the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) overturned their acquittals of involvement for crimes in several Bosnian municipalities – and one Croatian one – due to their role in financing and training Serb militias during the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, appeals judges said.
