Sreten Jocic aka Joca Amsterdam, who is on trial at the Belgrade Special Court for the murder of the co-owner of the Croatian political weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, and his business associate Niko Franjic, was sentenced by the Belgrade High Court on Thursday to 15 years in prison for incitement to murder.
Beta news agency cited judge Maja Ilic as saying that in July 1995, Jocic persuaded Miodrag Prodanovic and Bojan Milosavljevic to kill Goran Marjanovic. On that occasion, Marjanovic's girlfriend was also killed and another three people were injured.
The Belgrade trial of Jocic and the other two indictees accused of the murder of Pukanic and Franjic, started in Belgrade in April.
On 26 October 2009, Serbian prosecutors issued an indictment against Jocic, Zeljko Milovanovic and Milenko Kuzmanovic for conspiracy to kill Pukanic and for his assassination. Franjic was a collateral victim in the assassination in Zagreb in October 2008.
A parallel trial against six indictees, charged with the murder of Pukanic and Franjic, is being conducted in Zagreb.
