A former chief of the Intelligence Administration, General Milivoje Samardzic, and the commander of the 410th Intelligence Centre, Colonel Cedo Knezevic, are no longer under investigation, sources at the Banja Luka District Prosecutor's Office confirmed for the daily.
The former agents, who were sent into retirement in the meantime, were the main characters of an espionage scandal in March 2003 which was one of the main reasons for disbanding entity armies and organising a single Bosnian army.
The scandal erupted on March 7, 2003, when the offices of the 410th Intelligence Centre in Banja Luka were raided by Stabilisation Force troops who, it was claimed at the time, discovered evidence of mass-scale monitoring of international representatives, members of the public and officials of the Croat-Muslim entity.
The scandal resulted in the dismantling of the intelligence centre, its chief was replaced, and the head of the Intelligence Administration was demoted. Most members of the 410th Intelligence Centre were dismissed or sent into retirement.
Samardzic and Knezevic were the only two people suspected of espionage. Sources close to the prosecution claim that investigators were never given evidence on espionage allegations although statements were made about thousands of compromising documents discovered in the centre.