Valentin Ćorić

Valentin Ćorić (born 23 June 1956) is a Bosnian Croat former official in the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

[1][2] Ćorić was born on 23 June 1956 in Paoča, near Čitluk, in PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.

In 1992 he was appointed Deputy for Security and Commander of the Military Police of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO).

[1][2] According to the indictment, Ćorić was, until around April 1994, "a member of a shadowy organization whose goal was to create an ethnically pure territory to be annexed and merged into a Greater Croatia".

"[1][2] Taken from the UN press release: In November 2017, the ICTY convicted him along with five other Herceg-Bosnia officials (Jadranko Prlić, Bruno Stojić, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petković and Berislav Pušić) of participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at ethnically cleansing Bosniaks from Bosnia.