For the film director with the same Hungarian name, see Michael Curtiz.
Mihalj Kertes
Михаљ Кертес
Director of the Federal Customs Bureau of FR Yugoslavia
In office 1993 – 6 October 2000
Minister without portfolio
In office 14 July 1993 – 18 March 1994
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Vekoslav Šošević
Member of the Presidency of SR Serbia
In office 8 May 1989 – 28 September 1990
President
Slobodan Milošević
Personal details
Born
(1947-08-29)29 August 1947 Bačka Palanka, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Died
29 December 2022(2022-12-29) (aged 75) Belgrade, Serbia
Political party
SKJ (1974–1990)
SPS (1990–2015)
SNS (2015–2022)
Children
2
Nickname
Bracika
Mihalj Kertes (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаљ Кертес, Hungarian: Kertész Mihály; 29 August 1947 – 29 December 2022), nicknamed "Bracika", was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician. An ethnic Hungarian, he became a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1974 and a close associate of Slobodan Milošević in the late 1980s.
He became a prominent figure during the anti-bureaucratic revolution. Kertes was a candidate in the 1989 election for the presidency of Serbia within Yugoslavia but lost in a landslide to Milošević. He joined the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1990 and became the director of the Federal Customs Bureau of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1993. Kertes provided logistic and financial support for various undercover government operations until the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, which occurred on 5 October 2000. After the overthrow, Kertes was sentenced, tried, and acted as a witness in several trials.
parliamentary elections were announced for November 1989. Milošević, MihaljKertes, Zoran Pjanić, and Miroslav Đorđević were the candidates in the presidential...
indictment list that now also included 8 more individuals (Milorad Ulemek, MihaljKertes, Branko Đurić, Dragiša Dinić, Vidan Mijailović, and 3 more JSO members)...
Slobodan Milošević in the early 1990s who publicly espoused such views: MihaljKertes, Milan Babić, Milan Martić, Vojislav Šešelj, Stevan Mirković. In his...
Mihály Kéri, footballer playing for Yugoslavia and the United States MihaljKertes, politician, close associate of Slobodan Milošević Tereza Kočiš, gymnast...
spread of the propaganda. In July 1991, high-ranking Serbian official MihaljKertes said at a political rally in Nikšić that a Serbian state was to be established...
Military Line was created. Jovica Stanišić was installed as its head with MihaljKertes taking part as the "Minister of Ethnic Cleansing". It was determined...
government of Vojvodina. 5 October Under the control of Slobodan Milošević, MihaljKertes and 100,000 men from Bačka Palanka and the rest of Serbia enter Novi...
Tiago-Stanković, 57, Serbian-Portuguese writer and translator. 29 December – MihaljKertes, 75, politician, minister without portfolio (1993–1994). "Patriarch...
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