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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubted to one of them. When I was done with the interrogation I sent the documentsto the prosecutor. I did not take a look at the record. I did not evensee if the court reporter signed the record after this interrogation. AttorneyRodić showed me the copy of a record, which does not have the court reporter’ssignature. When I saw this I heard from Prosecutor Bukumirovićthat he had the copy with her name.The presiding judge asked me a question and I say that my signature existsin the area designated for the investigative judge’s signature on the recordfrom 18 July 2001. I took down on this record everything that the defendantsaid. I have no information that somebody added anything to this recordand I definitely did not. I did not add anything to this record. I made therecord the same day. I cannot remember exactly at what time the interrogationbegan. It lasted for a long time. As for the question you asked regardingthe sentence on the fourth page, which goes, ‘I state I have no objectionsto the record’ and then it continues on the fifth page, I say it is atechnical issue. The sentence that the defendant has no objections to therecords goes at the end and in what order the court reporter will place thepage numbers is a technical issue. The whole record was composed thatsame day. I interrogated the defendant on one occasion that day. If the defendanthad any objections, then they were taken down to the record. I didnot read the record before I signed it.”Then the defence counsellor asked the following question, “Are you, as investigativejudge, obliged to inspect the authenticity of the record and areyou held responsible for the validity of the record?”The court brings the followingRULINGThe answer to this question is forbidden.Defence counsellor Goran Rodić asked another question and the witnessgave the following answer:239