SARAJEVO, April 18 (Hina) - At least 25 persons from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be listed as persona non grata who are banned from entering the European Union, the international community's High Representative to Bosnia, Paddy
Ashdown, has said.
SARAJEVO, April 18 (Hina) - At least 25 persons from Bosnia and
Herzegovina will be listed as persona non grata who are banned from
entering the European Union, the international community's High
Representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, has said. #L#
In an interview ran by the Sarajevo-based Dnevni avaz daily on
Friday, Ashdown says these are people implicated in organised crime
and backing war crimes suspects.
Already on the list are Momcilo Mandic and Milovan Bjelica,
suspected of active participation through their political and
business activities in the harbouring of former Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic.
Mandic is in police custody in Belgrade where he was arrested
earlier this week by Serbian police.
Ashdown said the list of persona non grata in the EU will be far
longer than the 25 from Bosnia who, he explained, were part of 100
people for whom evidence existed of involvement in organised crime
and helping harbouring war crimes suspects.
The Briton announced the clampdown on organised crime in Bosnia
would be intensified. It will be based on significant changes to the
penal code, the establishment of an economic court and a special
police unit against organised crime which was trained by NATO's
Stabilisation Force last year.
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