A new hearing was held today in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case against the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and acting Miloš Lukić, director of the Official Gazette of the RS.
Today it was decided that the proceedings against Dodik and Lučić would be merged.
At the hearing, Dragan Kremenović, who was an inspector of SIPA, regional board of Banja Luka, testified.
Goran Bubić, Milorad Dodik’s lawyer, said today that Dodik’s trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for non-execution of the High Representative’s decisions is a farce. He justified such a position by the “unnecessary” questioning of the inspector of the BiH Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), who was in the team of investigators tasked with collecting documentation related to the promulgation of the decree on the publication of the disputed law, which refers to the non-implementation of the High Representative’s decisions. in the RS and on non-publication of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH on the territory of that BiH entity.
“Unnecessary orders were issued, because all RS authorities acted correctly and would have given all the documentation voluntarily. It is just simulating the existence of some kind of procedure,” Bubić told reporters in front of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the hearing held in that court.
He confirmed that Sena Uzunović remains a judge in this case, because the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina did not accept the request of Dodik’s defense for her disqualification.
The main trial against Dodik, after several prolongations, was opened on February 5, and against Lukić on February 13, since the proceedings against them were temporarily separated at the hearing on January 17, after Lukić did not attend the trial for health reasons.
In the meantime, Lukić’s defense requested the merger of the proceedings, and Dodik’s defense submitted a motion to disqualify the judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sena Uzunović, who was hired in this case instead of the former judge Mirsad Strike, who is retiring soon.
By the way, the opening of the main trial against Dodik and Lukić was supposed to take place in December last year, but it was prolonged several times for procedural reasons, i.e. because of the repeated requests of the defense, which insisted on moving the trial from Sarajevo to Banja Luka, then on the exemption of judges and prosecutors. and which the Court ultimately rejected as unfounded or inadmissible.
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