Mirko Sarovic, a former Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency, Momcilo Mandic, a war-time minister in the Bosnian Serb governments and powerful banker, Milovan Cicko Bjelica, who was an influential SDS official in eastern Bosnia, and Milorad Govedarica, are indicted for embezzling funds from the Privredna Banka East Sarajevo (PBIS) and for financing a network supporting runaway war criminals.
All four indictees have been in detention since 2005. Sarovic, Bjelica and Govedarica were arrested in Bosnia, while Momcilo Mandic was apprehended in Montenegro and handed over to Bosnia's authorities last summer.
Mandic is believed to have embezzled three million German marks in 1998 which he gave to a network supporting the fugitive Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Karadzic, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader, has been at large for more than a decade since the ICTY indicted him for genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.