MOSTAR, Jan 24(Hina) - Three former Bosnian Croat officials arrested on Friday will be kept in custody for 30 days so they can be investigated in connection with allegations of wrongdoing in the establishment and work of Hercegovacka
Bank, which was blocked by the NATO-led Stabilisation in 2001, the Bosnia-Herzegovina State Court decided on Saturday.
MOSTAR, Jan 24(Hina) - Three former Bosnian Croat officials arrested on
Friday will be kept in custody for 30 days so they can be investigated
in connection with allegations of wrongdoing in the establishment and
work of Hercegovacka Bank, which was blocked by the NATO-led
Stabilisation in 2001, the Bosnia-Herzegovina State Court decided on
Saturday.#L#
The decision to detain Ante Jelavic, former president of Bosnia's
Croatian Democratic Union party, Miroslav Prce, former defence
minister of the Bosnian Federation -- the Croat-Muslim entity, and
Miroslav Rupcic, former director of the Hercegovina osiguranje
insurance company, was made by an American judge at the Bosnian State
Court, Bernard Bolon, at the request of John McNair, who heads the
special department for organised crime, white-collar crime and
corruption at the international division of the Bosnian Prosecutor's
Office.
Jelavic's attorney Josip Muselimovic told Radio Herceg-Bosna today the
Prosecutor's Office's allegations concerning the arrest and detention
of his client had been completely unfounded and that Jelavic's human
rights had been breached.
Muselimovic said the accusations against Jelavic and the others were
generalised and ill-defined. He announced he would lodge a complaint
with the State Court over the detention set for Jelavic.
The three former officials were arrested early on Friday by the
Bosnian Federation police with SFOR's assistance.
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