The report was aired as the very first news item in the prime news programme of the federal television (TV FBIH) which quoted sources close to an investigation, launched into the so-called sugar scandal in Bosnia.
According to the TV FBIH, members of some relief agencies, organised in a network, transferred sugar to Croatia where they repacked sugar supplies and exported it to the European Union over several years immediately after the war ended in Bosnia in 1995.
The entire job was masterminded by Tunisian Sefik Ayadi, the head of the Muvafak humanitarian organisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the television said.
Sugar, previously imported in Bosnia with false papers, ended up in the sugar mill in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek in which it was repacked for the export to EU member-states.
The television said that a probe into the sugar of unknown origin, which used to be exported from Osijek to the Union, had been conducted by Croatian customs officials and Scotland Yard detectives.
The television also recalled that Sefik Ayadi was one of those who had been granted Bosnian citizenship but who was also on a list of persons suspected of supporting terrorism. Ayadi was a co-owner of the Euroinvest company in Bosnia known for murky dealings in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Another owner of the company was a Saudi businessman, Jasin Kady, whose name is on the list of top 12 alleged sponsors of Al Quaida.
Ayadi together with Saudi Vael Djulaydan, accused by the United States and Saudi Arabia of sponsoring terrorism, owned the Deposit Bank in Bosnia in 1996, the TV FBIH said.