MOSTAR, June 10 (Hina) - Faruk Balijagic, defence attorney for the second charged in the case of recently discovered secret weapons warehouses in eastern Mostar, announced that he would demand that charges be pressed against former
logistics chief in the Bosnian army, Halid Cengic, and his son Hasan Cengic, the former deputy defence minister in the Bosnian Federation.
MOSTAR, June 10 (Hina) - Faruk Balijagic, defence attorney for the
second charged in the case of recently discovered secret weapons
warehouses in eastern Mostar, announced that he would demand that
charges be pressed against former logistics chief in the Bosnian
army, Halid Cengic, and his son Hasan Cengic, the former deputy
defence minister in the Bosnian Federation. #L#
The Cengics are responsible for weapons valued at over five million
euros remaining in the Mostar warehouses, Balijagic told Hina.
In May, SFOR troops discovered 9,000 mortar shells and over three
tonnes of gun powder in three warehouses.
According to Balijagic former assistant Bosnian defence minister
Husein Galijasevic and former assistant federal defence minister
Mustafa Nusic knew about the warehouses.
Balijagic said that the first indictee, Mehmed Bajgoric, in his
statement before the Municipal Court in East Mostar on Monday
stated that the former city authorities in Mostar also knew about
the secret warehouses.
"I am going to request that the High Representative transfers this
case from Mostar to the Supreme Court because the prosecution in
Mostar is not capable of charging the former most powerful
officials in that town," Balijagic said.
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