Kertész

The Higher Court's verdict comes almost 15 years after the initiation of criminal proceedings in the case.

Markovic was tried in absentia as she is inaccessible to Serbia's judicial authorities. An international warrant was issued for her arrest in 2005.

Hungarian author Nobel Literature Prize winner Imre Kertesz has died aged 86 early Thursday in Budapest after a long illness, his publisher said on March 31.
 
The Holocaust survivor, who won the Nobel in 2002, passed away at his home, the director of Magveto Publishing, Krisztian Nyary, told AFP.
 

BELGRADE - Due to an absolute statute of limitations, Mihalj Kertes, a former head of the Yugoslav Federal Customs Administration, has been acquitted of charges of illegally transferring money to Cyprus between 1994 and 2000 on orders from Slobodan Milosevic.

BELGRADE - Businessman Stanko Subotic, former director of the Federal Customs Administration Mihalj Kertes and 13 other persons have been cleared of charges for cigarette smuggling in the course of 1995/96 at the Special Court in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Special Court Monday rejected charges against Mihalj Kertes, former director of Federal Customs Bureau of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia accused of illegally transferring state money to Cyprus, as the statute of limitations (SOL) in the case has expired.