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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtshould be verified, or a new fact which should be determined, the court hasdecided that the motion of the defence to hear witnesses Stevan MIlićević,Nedeljko Janković, Jovan Strvački, Marko Plavšić, Zlatko Lukić and PredragMilinović, who are also, as stated by the defence, members of the Scorpionsunit, is groundless. The names of most of these witnesses are not on the listof members of the Scorpions unit submitted to the court by the Ministry ofthe Interior of the Republic of Serbia - the Directorate for Fighting OrganisedCrime - and, besides, the motion to have new witnesses heard, withoutgiving additional information about them, without new facts to be determined,is, in the opinion of the court, an unnecessary dragging out ofthe criminal proceedings.The court has refused to hear witnesses Nebojša Kovačević, Ivica Nedeljkovićand Igor Mitrović who have signed the Daily Report submitted to the courtby the administration of the district prison in Prokuplje. Namely, on the basisof this report, it is obvious that the employees of the administration ofthe district prison, except for judge Mijat Bajović, who had been questioningdefendants Saša Cvjetan and Dejan Demirović in the premises of theprison, have failed to record the presence of other persons in the prison,although, at the trial, it has been definitely and indisputably determined,that, apart from the investigative judge, his recording secretary and attorneyŽivorad Šubaranović did come to the prison. Because of that, thecourt finds acceptable the claim of the investigative judge and attorneyŠubaranović that they had not been asked to produce their identity cardsupon entering the prison as the officers of the prison obviously knew themand knew their business in the prison and so did not believe it necessaryto see their identity cards and record their presence in the prison. Becauseof that, hearing the prison officers concerning the presence of certain personsin the premises of the district prison after six years would not producethe facts different from those already determined.During the presentation of evidence, the court has heard, among others,witnesses Slobodan Medić, who was the commander of the Scorpions unit;Dragan Medić; Dragan Borojević and Sran Manojlović. Witness SlobodanMedić stated that at the moment the shooting was heard he was attendingthe meeting in the local headquarters building and then a courier arrivedwith the message from Zoran Simović, aka Tutinac, the commanderof SAJ, inviting him to come because, allegedly, he had a problem. Then331