The Council of Ministers of BiH did not reach an agreement today at an extraordinary session to consider the situation in the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), an integral part of which was the proposal to dismiss the Agency’s director Darko Ćulum, who resigned, and appoint a new one, said the Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers Borjana Krišto.
She stated that her deputy Staša Košarac and the Minister of Finance and Treasury Srđan Amidžić were against discussing this information.
Krišto said that she received information about the situation in Sipa with the proposed measures from the Ministry of Security, and that it contained a proposal to dismiss the SIPA director, and a proposal to appoint a new one based on the procedure conducted by the Independent Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
“The proposal for dismissal is not urgent and would be included in one of the regular sessions of the Council of Ministers, but due to the overall situation, because we do not even have a deputy director, our responsibility was to review the situation in order to act responsibly and for SIPA to act in accordance with its competencies and responsibility towards the Ministry of Security and the Council of Ministers,” Krištova told reporters.
She recalled that the procedure for dismissing SIPA’s deputy director Zoran Galić last year lasted three months.
Last year, the Independent Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH conducted a competition procedure for the selection of SIPA’s director and submitted it to the then Minister of Security of BiH, Nenad Nešić.
The first ranked candidate on the list was Ćulum, the second was Ljubiša Pandurević, and the third was Slobodan Radinković, who was Nešić’s choice for the new SIPA director, but the Collegium of the Council of Ministers did not agree to put his appointment on the agenda of the Council of Ministers, Srna writes.
