The State Prosecutor’s Office has issued an order not to conduct an investigation against seven officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) who, in April, acting on an earlier order of the Court and Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), attempted to detain the then President of Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik.
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH stated that the order not to conduct an investigation applies to all seven individuals.
It was previously reported that the Istocno Sarajevo Police Administration had filed a criminal complaint against seven members of SIPA on suspicion that they had committed the criminal offences of “unlawful deprivation of liberty” and “abuse of official position” under the Criminal Code of RS.
The criminal complaint was initially submitted to the RS Public Prosecutor’s Office, which confirmed that it had been forwarded for further handling to the State Prosecutor’s Office.
BiH media previously reported that SIPA officers briefly arrived in front of the Government of RS building in Istocno Sarajevo on April 23rd, where Dodik was located. While camera operators were filming inserts from a meeting inside the building, SIPA vehicles arrived in front of the Government building and left the area after several minutes.
A central arrest warrant had been issued for Dodik, former RS Prime Minister Radovan Viskovic, and President of the National Assembly of RS (NARS) Nenad Stevandic. The Court of BiH had ordered their detention at the time after they refused to appear for questioning at the BiH Prosecutor’s Office, when an investigation was launched against them for undermining the constitutional order.
At the end of October, the investigation into the attack on the constitutional order against the three of them was suspended. It had been launched after the entity parliament adopted laws in February 2025 banning the operation of state judicial institutions on the territory of the RS.
These laws were adopted after the State Court handed down a verdict against Dodik for failing to comply with the decisions of the High Representative in BiH, sentencing him to one year in prison and banning him from holding the office of President of RS for six years.
In mid-July, first Dodik, and then Viskovic and Stevandic, voluntarily reported to the BiH Prosecutor’s Office for questioning, after which the measure of detention was lifted, and a measure of mandatory periodic reporting to the competent police stations was imposed.
