BANJA LUKA/SARAJEVO, Oct 15 (Hina) - Investigators of the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, assisted by Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops, are conducting "an unannounced selective inspection" of the premises of Republika Srpska's
Intelligence and Security Service (OBS), the SFOR spokesman in the northwestern city of Banja Luka, Ron Carson, confirmed on Wednesday.
BANJA LUKA/SARAJEVO, Oct 15 (Hina) - Investigators of the Hague-
based UN war crimes tribunal, assisted by Stabilisation Force
(SFOR) troops, are conducting "an unannounced selective
inspection" of the premises of Republika Srpska's Intelligence and
Security Service (OBS), the SFOR spokesman in the northwestern city
of Banja Luka, Ron Carson, confirmed on Wednesday. #L#
Carson said the operation would end later in the day or tomorrow
morning at the latest.
The search of the headquarters and several area offices of the
Bosnian Serb intelligence service was carried out at the request of
the prosecutor's office of the Hague tribunal, said the spokesman
for the tribunal's Sarajevo office, Refik Hodzic.
Hodzic said that the tribunal investigators searched the OBS
offices for documents which the tribunal had requested from the
Republika Srpska government but which were never sent to The
Hague.
The tribunal investigators, backed by members of the EU Police
Mission and the SFOR Brigade Northwest, are searching the OBS
headquarters in Banja Luka and its offices in Pale, Mrkonjic-Grad,
Trebinje and Prijedor.
No incidents have been reported in the course of the operation.
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