SARAJEVO, Sept 30 (Hina) - A former Bosnian interior minister, Bakir Alispahic, and four other former high ranking Bosnian police and intelligence officials were released from custody on Monday after having spent five months in an
investigating centre.
SARAJEVO, Sept 30 (Hina) - A former Bosnian interior minister,
Bakir Alispahic, and four other former high ranking Bosnian police
and intelligence officials were released from custody on Monday
after having spent five months in an investigating centre. #L#
The president of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Sadudin Kratovic, stated that the decision to release
Alispahic and the others was made because there was no legal ground
to prolong their detention.
Bakir Alispahic, Irfan Ljevakovic, Enver Mujezinovic, Edhem
Veladzic and Ejub Ikic were arrested more than five months ago on
charges of being involved in espionage and terrorism and conspiracy
to assassinate Fikret Abdic.
They were suspected of assisting, in their capacity as members of
the Bosnian police and the Bosnian secret service the Agency for
Investigation and Documentation (AID), in the setting up of a
terrorist training centre on Mt. Pogorelica in central Bosnia.
The centre was led by agents from the Iranian secret service Vevak
and according to the findings of the investigation, recruits at the
camp were trained to, among other things, kill and compromise the
political opponents of the then Bosnian authorities, i.e. members
of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA).
The camp at Pogorelica was closed after members of the former peace
implementation forces (IFOR) raided it, capturing everyone on the
site and confiscating all the equipment discovered.
The Bosnian authorities never investigated the case, contrary to
demands by western countries, particularly the US government, and
the only concession the former chairman of the BH Presidency, Alija
Izetbegovic, was willing to make was to remove Alispahic from his
office.
Representatives of the Islamic community in Bosnia condemned the
investigation that started five months ago and demanded that
Alispahic and the others be released.
Supreme Court judge Jasminka Putica, who was in charge of the
investigation, resigned more than a month ago due to health
reasons.
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