A formerly senior Bosnian Croat official, Jelavic was sentenced to 10 years in jail last month for embezzling funds which Croatia had been sending as assistance to Bosnian Croats in the late 1990s. He has dual Bosnian and Croatian citizenship and is believed to be hiding in Croatia. Croatia does not extradite its citizens. His sentence is currently in the appeal stage.
Kreso and other Bosnian judicial officials visited Washington on the tenth anniversary of the Dayton agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia. She informed the CSIS of the work of Bosnia's State Court, notably its war crimes chamber, which became operational in January.
The registrar of that chamber and of the court's unit for organised crime, Michael Johnson, said the fact that Bosnian Serb wartime leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal, were still at large indicated that the international community had not done enough to arrest them.