SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, April 14 (Hina) - The president of Bosnia's Serb entity, Dragan Cavic, decided on Monday to dissolve the intelligence department of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) after probes conducted by NATO's Stabilisation Force
(SFOR) established the department had engaged in espionage.
SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, April 14 (Hina) - The president of Bosnia's
Serb entity, Dragan Cavic, decided on Monday to dissolve the
intelligence department of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) after probes
conducted by NATO's Stabilisation Force (SFOR) established the
department had engaged in espionage. #L#
Cavic met the VRS chief-of-staff, General Cvetko Savic, and Defence
Minister Milovan Stankovic in Banja Luka today to discuss a report
on the situation in the entity's military which was compiled after
SFOR on March 7 searched military facilities in the Banja Luka and
Bijeljina areas.
Cavic told journalists the report confirmed the military's
engagement in illegal activities and that the first step was to
dissolve department 410, which was in charge of intelligence. A
brand new intelligence-reconnaissance unit will be set up in line
with SFOR directives, he said.
Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina have recently published copies of
confidential documents claimed to have been in possession of the
VRS's 410th intelligence department. These documents confirmed
that the VRS intelligence had spied on international
representatives in Bosnia as well as in Croatia.
Said department is also believed to have been closely supervising
potential witnesses in trials being held before the U.N. war crimes
tribunal at The Hague.
As for allegations that the Bosnian Serb army had been involved in
preparations for last month's assassination of Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic and an attempted coup in Serbia, no
concrete evidence has been submitted so far.
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