On February 3, 2014, the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor filed a motion before the Appeals Chamber requesting a reconsideration of its acquittal of Momčilo Perišić, former Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army, of aiding and abetting crimes committed in Sarajevo and Srebrenica between 1993 and 1995.  According to a statement made by the Prosecutor, the Perišić Appeals Chamber’s finding that “specific direction” is an element of aiding and abetting was the basis upon which “the aiding and abetting convictions entered by the Trial Chamber were reversed and Mr. Perišić was erroneously acquitted on appeal.”  The Prosecutor also stated his office filed the motion for reconsideration “as a direct consequence” of the recent Prosecutor v. Šainović Appeals Chamber Judgment, “which unequivocally overturned the Perišić Appeal Judgement’s flawed holding” regarding specific direction.