Authorities on Thursday arrested Bosnia’s Security Minister Nenad Nesic and 6 different individuals on fees of organized crime, together with cash laundering, abuse of workplace, and acceptance of bribes, the state prosecutor’s workplace stated.
The state prosecutor and the Interior Ministry of decentralized Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic (RS) have been investigating suspected corruption on the public firm Roads of RS, the place Nesic was the final supervisor from 2016-20.
The firm’s present common supervisor, Milan Dakic, was additionally arrested, in addition to Mladen Lucic, a member of the Democratic People’s Alliance celebration led by Nesic.
Local media reported that Lucic had been indicted for abuse of workplace whereas serving as a deputy in a municipal meeting.
Nesic, requested by journalists to touch upon the fees whereas he was coming into the police station in East Sarajevo, stated solely: “I continue to fight for Republika Srpska (RS).”
Lucic’s lawyer, Nina Karacic, confirmed for N1 tv that he was detained and his home searched.
“I only know this is about an (alleged) ‘acceptance of bribe’ criminal act,” Karacic stated, including that extra can be identified after a listening to with the prosecution.
The prosecution didn’t establish the opposite 4 individuals in custody.
RS President Milorad Dodik is himself on trial in Bosnia’s state court docket for defying the choices of Christian Schmidt, the worldwide peace envoy who oversees the implementation of the Dayton treaty that ended Bosnia’s Nineteen Nineties warfare.
Dodik accused the prosecutor’s workplace of a marketing campaign of persecution towards RS officers.
“The procedure launched by Bosnia’s prosecutor’s office against Security Minister Nenad Nesic is totally unacceptable,” Dodik stated on social media platform X.
Source: www.dailysabah.com