Patrons and numerous members of the unit and its predecessors have been implicated and some sentenced , for war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars , as well as criminal activity . The unit 's official commander Franko Simatović and its gray eminence Jovica Stanišić ( head of RDB during the first half of Slobodan Milošević 's rule ) were acquitted at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for various war crimes . Various other members are convicted or being tried for the Ibar Highway assassination attempt and for the murders of Ivan Stambolić and Slavko Ćuruvija . The JSO was also reportedly involved in instances of war crimes in the Kosovo War
Ibar Highway assassination attempt
Ibar Highway assassination attempt
Special Operations Unit (Serbia)