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Infographic: State Aid to Hague Indictees

BIRN
December 23, 201309:05
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has established that five former Yugoslav countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia – spent a total of almost 40 million euro on support for war crimes suspects at the Hague Tribunal.

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The details of many of these payments have never been made public before BIRN’s cross-regional investigation. Read more >>

Breakdown by country

Bosnian Serb suspects received 640,000 euro of state money, while Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats got nothing. Read more >>

Croatia spent over 28 million euro on three generals, and even more was raised by a private fund. Read more >>

Private funds in Kosovo collected more than 1.7 million euro for war crimes defendants. Read more >>

Macedonia kept payments secret but BIRN has found that almost 9.5 million euro was spent on two indictees. Read more >>

Serbia spent around 1.7 million euro on supporting defendants, a lot of it going to Bosnian Serb officers. Read more >>

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