Sanin Bogunic, president of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), said that the judiciary at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has done everything within its power regarding the charges against Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska(RS), Nenad Stevandic, president of the National Assembly of RS (NARS), and Radovan Viskovic, prime minister of RS, and that the matter now rests with security agencies.
“The judiciary conducts investigations; however, the execution of orders entered into the central wanted persons database must be carried out by police agencies,” Bogunic said during a break in the HJPC session.
At that session, Milanko Kajganic, Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, presented a report on the work of the Prosecutor’s Office, but Bogunic stated that the report pertains to activities in 2024.
He said that every police officer must act upon a warrant and detain individuals on the wanted list, without directly answering the specific question of how Nenad Stevandic, president of the NARS, crossed the BiH border from Serbia.
Responding to a question on whether there are indications that employees in BiH judicial institutions might leave these institutions following calls from RS to do so, Bogunic said that the institutions are functioning completely normally.
“All colleagues from RS who are part of the HJPC arrived at the session this morning, we are working and cooperating as if nothing is happening. I am in contact with the Chief Prosecutor and the acting President of the Court of BiH, and in their offices, there is not a single person who has expressed a desire or submitted a request to transfer to other institutions,” Bogunic said yesterday.
He declined to comment on issues in communication between the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and police agencies.
