Predrag Banović (born 28 October 1969)Profile
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) is a

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who was charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions at the

Keraterm camp The Keraterm camp was a concentration camp established by Bosnian Serb military and police authorities near the town of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. The camp was used to collect and confine between 1,000–1, ...

during the Bosnian War. He pleaded guilty to all charges in a bargain and was sentenced to serve eight years in prison, with credit for 716 days as time served. Banović was arrested along with his twin brother, Nenad Banović, on 8 November 2001 in

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. He faced thirteen counts of crimes against humanity and twelve counts of violations of the laws of war. His case was processed along with those of Željko Meakić, Momcilo Gruban, Dušan Fuštar and Duško Knežević and was referred to as "Omarska and Keraterm Camps". On 28 July 2004, Banović was transferred to

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to serve his sentence in a French prison. On 3 September 2008, he was granted early release.

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ICTY Consolidated Indictment

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