Mihalj Kertes

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.