INTERPOL SUCH changes the decision to fail to issue arrest papers for Dodik and Stevhay

In March, INTERPOL rejected the Bosnian Court's request to issue an international warrant for Milorad Dodik, the president of the Republika Srpska, and Nenad Stevhazi, president of the Republika Srpska People's Assembly.

On Wednesday, the Bosnian Court said the international criminal police organisation has refused to change that decision.

“due to nature of communication with NCB INTERPOL, the privacy of the information, respectively, the Court is unable to provide further details”, the court said.

Dodik and Stevha persecuted, as well as Republika Srpska Prime Minister Radovan Viskoviq, who is not mentioned in the request for international arrest papers, are accused of violating Bosnia and Herzegovina's constitutional order.

Therefore, the Bosnian Court issued national arrest against them in March, as they had not responded to the call by the Bosnia General Prosecutor for questioning.

National arrest means that each of the 16 police agencies at all levels of governance in Bosnia must arrest them, which has not happened until now.

They continue to perform their duties regularly in the Bosnian Serb entity.

The Bosnian prosecutor initially requested issuance of international arrest papers, saying Dodik and Stevha pursued “exploited their top positions in the republic of Srpska, avoiding legally defined border control procedures, crossed the state border and left Bosnia”.

Both officials have travelled abroad several times since national arrest papers were issued against them.

Since Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from exercising office for six years in March, authorities in Republika Srpska adopted a set of laws banning the work of state judicial and investigative bodies on the territory of the Serbian entity. / REL