Serbia pays compensation to family of killed former president

Serbia has paid €250,000 in compensation to the family of a former president killed under orders from late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a government official said today.

Ivan Stambolic, who served as Serbia’s president in the 1980s, was kidnapped while jogging in a Belgrade park and executed by state security officers in 2000. His body was dumped in a lime pit in a forest in northern Serbia where it was found in 2003.