Mladen Naletilić (1 December 1946 – 17 December 2021) was a Bosnian Croat paramilitary commander of the "Convicts' Battalion" (Croatian language “Kažnjenička Bojna” of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) convicted for war crimes by the ICTY.

[3] In 1990 he returned to Croatia and in 1991 he founded a volunteer unit and named it "Convicts' Battalion" (Croatian: Kažnjenička bojna).

[4] In 1992 when Bosnian War started, "Convicts' Battalion" was replaced in Široki Brijeg (former Lištica) and they operated in Herzegovina.

Members of the unit included foreign volunteers such as Germans, the British, the French, Swedes, Paraguayans and Argentines.

When the Croat-Bosniak War broke out in 1992, "Convicts' Battalion" fought against ARBiH in Jablanica, Doljani and Vakuf.

In 1997, he was arrested and convicted of the murder of Robert Nosić, a military policeman and member of Croatian Defence Forces from Ljubuški.