The president of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) entity Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik, by appearing before the Court of BiH, committed a criminal offence for which a prison sentence of six months to five years is prescribed by a recently adopted law in RS.
This statement was made yesterday by Ognjen Bodiroga, head of the opposition SDS parliamentary caucus in the National Assembly of the RS (NARS).
“If an official or responsible person in an RS institution does not apply, does not implement, does not execute, or otherwise does not respect the decision of RS institutions, they shall be punished with a prison sentence of six months to five years,” Bodiroga quoted an article of that law.
The ruling coalition, led by the SNSD, adopted in the entity parliament laws banning the work of judicial and security institutions of BiH on the territory of RS, and amendments to the Criminal Code of RS were also adopted, which prescribe penalties for not respecting the decisions of entity institutions.
“There is no defence against this. The NARS adopted the law on non-implementation of laws and the ban on the work of the Court of BiH and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, and Dodik violated that. Period!” wrote Bodiroga on X and published the text of the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of the RS.
After several months of refusal, Dodik went to the Court of BiH on Friday, which revoked his detention, but also the warrant, after he had previously given a statement in the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH due to suspicion that he had committed the criminal offence of attacking the constitutional order of BiH.
Detention had previously been ordered for him because he did not respond to the summons of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH to be questioned as a suspect for “attack on the constitutional order” due to the adoption of several laws in the NARS, which deny the authority of state judicial and police institutions in the entity.
The Court of BiH imposed prohibition measures on Dodik.
