Radomir "Rade" Marković ( sr-cyr, Радомир Марковић; born 11 August 1946) is a Serbian former

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who served as the head of the state security agency SDB within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia from 1998 to 2001. In 2008, the

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sentenced Marković to 40 years' imprisonment for orchestrating a 1999 attack on Serbian opposition politician

Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and served as the war-time Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

. During his career which lasted from 1970 until 2001, he served several and head positions of the Serbian Police during the 1990s and as the assistant Minister of Internal Affairs (August 1993–1994).

Head of security service

Marković was born to a

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family in

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

, in present-day

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."The Milosevic charge sheet"
2001-04-02, bbc.co.uk, accessed 2008-06-20. Under Yugoslav president

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, Marković was appointed to succeed

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as the head of the SDB on 27 October 1998. After Milošević lost the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election to challenger

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, Marković formally resigned his position on 25 January 2001.

Arrest and trials

Marković was arrested by Yugoslav police in February 2001 and was charged with committing "the criminal act of abuse of official position" by organising the 1999

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, which resulted in the deaths of four people. Marković was found guilty by the

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District Court and on 18 July 2005 was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. However, in May 2006, the Supreme Court of Serbia set aside the District Court verdict and ordered a retrial. At his retrial, Marković was again convicted and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. The verdict of the District Court was again overturned by the Supreme Court, and Marković was tried again, this time by a panel of Supreme Court judges."Serb security men guilty of political death plot"
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'', 2008-06-19, accessed 2008-06-20. On 19 June 2008, Marković was convicted by the Supreme Court and sentenced to the maximum 40 years' imprisonment.

Witness in Milošević trial

On 26 July 2002, Marković appeared as a witness before the

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in the

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. During his testimony, Marković admitted to have signed a document against the former Yugoslav president under pressure, being threatened because of his judicial position. He also stated that for his anti-Milošević testimony he and his family were offered a new life, with a new identity and money in a foreign country.

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Radomir Rade Marković, šef državne bezbednosti
(Serbian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Radomir 1946 births Living people People from Tuzla Prisoners and detainees of Serbia Serbian prisoners and detainees Chiefs of police Serbian criminals Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina