SARAJEVO, July 28 (Hina) - The State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Appeals Council on Friday accepted the defence's appeal and changed former entity defence minister Miroslav Prce's 18-month prison sentence in the Croat
Self-Government case into an acquittal, the State Court said.
SARAJEVO, July 28 (Hina) - The State Court of Bosnia and
Herzegovina Appeals Council on Friday accepted the defence's appeal and changed
former entity defence minister Miroslav Prce's 18-month prison sentence in the
Croat Self-Government case into an acquittal, the State Court said.
The initial verdict found Prce guilty of abuse of office and ordering that
members of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) be sent home from barracks during an
attempt to set up Croat self-rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991. At the
time, Prce was minister of defence of one of Bosnia's two entities, the
Croat-Muslim Federation.
Prce is still serving a four-year prison sentence in the Hercegovacka
Banka case, which involved the embezzlement of funds Croatia had been sending
as assistance to Bosnian Croats in the 1990s.