5 hours agoSerbian captured stealing original Dayton Agreement
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)A Bosnian Serb has been arrested suspected of stealing the original draft of the 1995 Dayton Agreement, with which peace has been reached in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Person Zelko Kuntos was arrested yesterday and questioned, prosecutor Dragica Tojagic said today. The reconciliation mediated by the United States, known to [...]
Person Zelko Kuntos was arrested yesterday and questioned, prosecutor Dragica Tojagic said today.
The reconciliation mediated by the United States, known as the Dayton Accord, was reached at a Dayton military air base in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 by the presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia, who were the three parties involved in the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over 100,000 people were killed in this conflict.
It's not clear how Kuntos stole this document.
“He hid it in his house in the gym, where we found it during the” raid, prosecutor Tojagic said.
Pale is a Sarajevo neighbourhood, which has served as the headquarters the leadership of Bosnian Serbs during the conflict in periphery 1992-95.
According to local media, Kuntos had worked as a driver and bodyguard of a former head of parliament in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Currently, he was trying to sell this document for $59,000 American dollars, local media reported.
The original agreement was reported missing in 2008, and Bosnia had received a new copy from Paris, where the signing ceremony was held.
