SARAJEVO, April 4 (Hina) - The Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina's interior ministry on April 2 filed charges against the acting director of the federal intelligence service (FOSS), Ivan Vuksic.
SARAJEVO, April 4 (Hina) - The Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina's
interior ministry on April 2 filed charges against the acting
director of the federal intelligence service (FOSS), Ivan Vuksic.
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A spokesman for the ministry's police administration, Robert
Cvrtak, confirmed that information by local media about criminal
charges being filed against Vuksic was correct and that the charges
related to April 2001 events concerning the Hercegovacka Bank, the
Fena agency reported.
Vuksic is accused of grave crimes such as endangering persons under
international protection and taking hostages, as well as violent
behaviour and assault against official persons.
The "Slobodna Bosna" weekly reported earlier that Vuksic, at the
time an official of the National Security Service, had coordinated
and organised attacks on international police officers, members of
the SFOR, and auditors who in the spring of 2001 were instructed to
search the offices of the Hercegovacka Bank in Mostar to
investigate its business and check suspicions about criminal
activities whose purpose was the financing of Bosnia's Croatian
Democratic Union party.
Vuksic has headed FOSS for more than half a year, since the
international High Representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown,
dismissed the service's director, Munir Alibabic.
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