ZAGREB, April 19 (Hina) - The Friday break-in NATO's peacekeepers in Bosnia made in the Mostar-based Hercegovacka Banka was necessary to gain access to detailed information about the bank's transactions, the international community's
High Representative in Bosnia told Croatian Television last night. Wolfgang Petritsch reiterated that Hercegovacka Banka's replaced management had refused to hand over requested documentation to the bank's emergency administrator Toby Robinson, and that the entire requested documentation was found in the operation carried out by the Stabilisation Force. The High Representative dismissed as non-sense the bank management's claim that he wanted to sell Hercegovacka Banka, as well as an announced lawsuit. He said he had delegated an international administrator who would see to the bank getting a legal management and secure the bank's assets so that people whith fu
ZAGREB, April 19 (Hina) - The Friday break-in NATO's peacekeepers
in Bosnia made in the Mostar-based Hercegovacka Banka was necessary
to gain access to detailed information about the bank's
transactions, the international community's High Representative
in Bosnia told Croatian Television last night.
Wolfgang Petritsch reiterated that Hercegovacka Banka's replaced
management had refused to hand over requested documentation to the
bank's emergency administrator Toby Robinson, and that the entire
requested documentation was found in the operation carried out by
the Stabilisation Force.
The High Representative dismissed as non-sense the bank
management's claim that he wanted to sell Hercegovacka Banka, as
well as an announced lawsuit.
He said he had delegated an international administrator who would
see to the bank getting a legal management and secure the bank's
assets so that people whith funds in Hercegovacka Banka and its
legal owners could exercise their rights.
Commenting on claims that by changing electoral rules at last
year's polls and now with the Hercegovacka Banka issue the
international community had achieved an adverse effect and
homogenised the Croat community in Bosnia, the High Representative
said these had always been the extremists' claims.
Petritsch said the international community was not working against
the Bosnian Croat people but wanted to ensure law enforcement in
order to guarantee the rights of the population of Herzegovina and
its largest town, Mostar. He vowed their rights would be ensured and
not be obstructed by criminals and politicians minding only their
own interests.
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