Case No. IT-02-65-PT

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson Presiding
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Judge Iain Bonomy

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthius

Order of:
21 July 2005

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla del Ponte
Ms. Ann Sutherland

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Jovan Simic and Mr. Zoran Zivanovic, for Zeljko Mejakic
Mr. Branko Lukic, for Momcilo Gruban
Mr. Theodore Scudder and Mr. Dragan Ivetic, for Dusan Fustar
Ms. Slobodanka Nedic, for Dusko Knezevic

THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (“International Tribunal”),

proprio motu

NOTING that the Trial Chamber granted the request for provisional release of Momcilo Gruban on 17 July 2002 (“Provisional Release Decision”), and that his provisional release is subject to certain terms and conditions including, inter alia, “to return to the International Tribunal at such time and on such date as the Trial Chamber may order” and “to comply strictly with any order of the Trial Chamber varying the terms of, or terminating his provisional release”,¹

NOTING that the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") filed a “Request by the Prosecutor Under Rule 11 bis” on 2 September 2004 (“Prosecutor’s Rule 11 bis Request”), in which it requested the referral of the case against Momcilo Gruban and his three co-accused (collectively, “Accused”) to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the President of the International Tribunal transferred the Prosecutor’s Rule 11 bis Request to the Referral Bench of the International Tribunal (“Referral Bench”) for determination,

NOTING that, for the delivery of its decision on the Prosecutor’s Rule 11 bis Request, the Referral Bench scheduled a public hearing to be held “in the presence of the Accused and their Counsels” and that, as ordered by the Referral Bench, Momcilo Gruban was present at the hearing,²

NOTING that the Referral Bench granted the Prosecutor’s Rule 11 bis Request to refer the case to Bosnia and Herzegovina and ordered, inter alia , the Registrar of the International Tribunal to arrange for the transport of each of the Accused and their personal belongings to Bosnia and Herzegovina within 30 days of its decision becoming final,³

NOTING that the Defence of the Accused, including Momcilo Gruban, and the Government of Serbia and Montenegro, opposed the Prosecutor’s Rule 11 bis Request to refer the case to Bosnia and Herzegovina,

CONSIDERING that the circumstances upon which provisional release is granted to Momcilo Gruban have materially changed in that a decision to refer the case to Bosnia and Herzegovina has been made and that he will no longer be tried before the International Tribunal, and that the guarantees provided by Momcilo Gruban and the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro,⁴ and Republic of Serbia, will no longer be applicable,

CONSIDERING THEREFORE that it is necessary for the Trial Chamber to terminate the provisional release granted to Momcilo Gruban,

PURSUANT to Rules 54 and 65 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY TERMINATES the Provisional Release Decision without prejudice to the right of Momcilo Gruban to make another application for provisional release.

Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.

__________________
Judge Robinson
Presiding

Dated this twenty-first day of July 2005
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]