SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb opposition leader Milorad Dodik has said that there is an organisation named "The Patriotic Group", linked with mobsters who are working on destabilising the situation in the Republic of Srpska
and Serbia.
SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb opposition leader Milorad
Dodik has said that there is an organisation named "The Patriotic
Group", linked with mobsters who are working on destabilising the
situation in the Republic of Srpska and Serbia. #L#
Dodik said in an interview to Monday's issue of "Oslobodjenje"
daily that the group comprised former and active intelligence
agents and officers of the armies of the Bosnian Serb entity and
Yugoslavia who were connected with underground circles from both
sides of the Drina river.
He confirmed that he had held talks with Serbian Premier Zoran
Djindjic on the great impact of crime gangs on the judiciary both in
Serbia and the Bosnian Serb entity just a few days before his
assassination.
"We concluded that it would be impossible to carry out a successful
crack-down on crime in Serbia without doing the same in the Republic
of Srpska and the entire Bosnia-Herzegovina," Dodik said.
Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic has recently said that on
that occasion Dodik handed over to Djindjic a list with the names of
persons who had been planning a coup in Serbia. Dodik, however,
denied this statement in his interview.
He said that while he was the entity's premier the struggle against
mob circles was impossible because underground bosses would flee to
Serbia whenever local police began any action against. Once in
Serbia, they enjoyed the protection of the Slobodan Milosevic
regime. The situation at the moment is reverse, with underground
bosses leaving Serbia and finding shelter in the Bosnian Serb
entity as Serbia's authorities are conducting a decisive clamp-
down on organised crime, he explained.
According to Dodik, it is only international organisations'
representatives who are taking efficient measures against crime in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Zoran Djeric has already announced
that Dodik, the leader of the Party of Independent Social Democrats
(SNSD), will be called for questioning by local police to inform
them of what he had told the late premier Djindjic.
Dodik replied that he had no intention of going to the interview as
he did not trust the local interior ministry.
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