The Deputy of the State Agency for Investigations and Protection, Zoran Galić, has not yet been dismissed or relieved of his duties in this position. A central international warrant was recently issued for him.
According to the claims of his legal team, Galić did not flee to Croatia because of interrogation at the Prosecutor’s Office, but is undergoing treatment. In the meantime, information from SIPA appeared in some media that he did not submit the remittance for sick leave until August 5, and that his salary has not yet been calculated. At the same time, he was neither dismissed at his personal request, nor replaced, as certain ministers in the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina consider to be the logical solution.
The deputy director of the State Agency for Investigation and Protection, Zoran Galić, has been on the run from BiH justice for more than a month and is in neighboring Croatia. His legal team has previously claimed that he is not on the run, but undergoing treatment, and that this is the reason why he could not respond to the summons for questioning at the BiH Prosecutor’s Office. On August 6, the Prosecution asked the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to order Galić into custody.
“The prosecution believes that it can be concluded that the suspect is consciously avoiding to respond to the invitation of the Prosecutor’s Office for questioning, that is, that he is hiding, especially considering that there is absolutely no evidence that the suspect is prevented from responding to such an invitation due to his impaired health, because there is none proof that the suspect is in any way temporarily prevented from working due to illness”, announced the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A central international warrant was recently issued for him, and the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is waiting for an epilogue on whether he will be dismissed or replaced. During that time in SIPI, where he was appointed, it was confirmed to some media that Galić had not submitted the remittance for sick leave until August 5, and that his salary could not be calculated, but the Council of Ministers and the Independent Board decide on the further labor-legal statute Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Council of Ministers did not vote on his dismissal because some ministers from among the Bosniak people believe that his dismissal would be a logical move.
“We are of the opinion that in no way should it be made easier for the person for whom a warrant has been issued who is a suspect and we are looking for the best legal solution, for that we need the help of all our colleagues in the Council of Ministers, we did not vote because we do not want him to have any benefits which he would have in that case”, emphasizes the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elmedin Konaković.
The SDP also thinks the same, especially taking into account that Galić’s dismissal would give him all the benefits before retirement, such as the high severance pay, and that apparently someone in the Council of Ministers wants to favor Galić.
“He has the right, justice, politics, but sound logic dictates that the man should be dismissed,” says Saša Magazinović (SDP), deputy in PD PSBiH.
Intricate legal procedures in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina have left a vacuum in which it is practically unknown when the person suspected of accepting bribes while he was the director of the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina will stop performing his duties in an important institution such as SIPA. We also contacted BiH Minister of Security Nenad Nešić, but he did not answer our calls, BHRT writes.
