Special Prosecutor of the Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo, Sylë Hoxha, has proposed that the three defendants “involved in the murder of Serbian politician Oliver Ivanovic”, Dragisa Markovic, Silvana Arsovic and Zarko Jovanovic to be arrested under house arrest. According to the lawyer, Dejan Vasic, the court will decide on the proposal of prosecutor Hoxha during the hearing on December 30.

“Three persons, for which the house arrest measure was asked are free for now. We think that proposal for the house arrest is unnecessary, as they show no intension to obstruct litigation or to escape. Limitation of their free movement would be completely unnecessary, and I therefore think that the court will not accept it and that proposal of special prosecutor will be rejected,” Vaisc says, while adding that if they wanted to escape and now to be tried, they could have done that by now, Zeri reports.

Otherwise, on December 2 the Special Court of Kosovo indicted 6 persons (Nedelko Spasojevic, Marko Rosic, Dragisa Markovic, Zarko Jovanovic, Rade Basara and Silvana Arsovic) as “involved in Oliver Ivanovic’s Murder”.

Oliver Ivanović was a Kosovo Serb politician. He served as the  Serbian State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo from 2008 to 2012. Ivanovic was assassinated by unknown perpetrators on 16 January 2018 in front of his party office in North Mitrovica.

According to media reports, at the time of his death he was being retried for ordering the murder of Kosovo Albanians during the war in Kosovo in 1999. He pleaded not guilty.