SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - The Bosnian Federation's Supreme Court has still not decided to launch court proceedings and arrest three former senior police and intelligence officials suspected of terrorism and espionage for Iran, even
though the federal Prosecutor's Office has requested so ten days ago.
SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - The Bosnian Federation's Supreme Court
has still not decided to launch court proceedings and arrest three
former senior police and intelligence officials suspected of
terrorism and espionage for Iran, even though the federal
Prosecutor's Office has requested so ten days ago. #L#
At investigating judge Jasminka Putica's request, the Federation's
Interior Ministry last week expanded a draft indictment against
former interior minister and head of the Agency for Research and
Documentation (AID) Bakir Alispahic and his associates Irfan
Ljevakovic and Enver Mujezinovic.
The draft indictment charges the three men with organising
terrorist training for members of the Bosnian Interior Ministry and
the AID in 1995-6, with assistance from the Iranian secret service
Vevak.
The basic goal of said training was squaring accounts with the party
of Democratic Action's (SDA) political adversaries at the time,
like Fikret Abdic and Muhamed Filipovic, according to the findings
of the federal police.
The Pogorelica Case, as the media called this affair after the
training headquarters, in the meantime has turned from a criminal-
espionage affair into a political issue. Senior SDA officials
protested over the campaign against their party's members.
Alispahic, Ljevakovic, and Mujezinovic have written to the
Federation's Supreme Court, television and parliament, ombudsmen,
the Communications Regulatory Agency, and the Press Council. They
protest that most media reports treat them as guilty and notorious
criminals even though court proceedings have not begun. They claim
they have not received any criminal charges and learned about them
from the media.
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