birth_place nickname rank article_title name
gvozd , croatia pauk major general -lrb- svk -rrb- mile novaković
 mile novaković
mile novaković

mile novaković -lrb- born in vrginmost , croatia on april 29 , 1950 -rrb- is a former serbian major general active in the military of serbian krajina and in the federal yugoslav army , during and after the croatian war of independence .
he was tried in absentia by a croatian court in 1995 for war crimes , being sentenced to 20 years in jail .
in 2003 , another yugoslav army official was apprehended by macedonian officials citing an interpol warrant , as he tried to cross into the country .
this man was released after the mistaken identity was discovered .
the real mile novaković remains at large in serbia .
in 2010 , novaković testified at the trial of momčilo perišić at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia .
perišić had previously promoted novaković to the rank of major general in the federal yugoslav army in 1993 .
