The wife of the former president of Republika Srpska (RS), Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), appealed to the court in the United States (U.S.) because she waited 42 months for the decision rejecting her request to be removed from the list of sanctions.
Karadzic‘s wife, Ljiljana, submitted a request to the District Court in Columbia, considering that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) delay of 42 months to decide on her request to be removed from the U.S. sanctions list is unreasonable.
As stated in the submission of her lawyer Peter Robinson, U.S.courts need to hold OFAC accountable.
“The court should issue a declaratory judgment that would establish the delay as unreasonable. OFAC’s decision on the merits was arbitrary and capricious. Ljiljana’s mere presence at the two events in 2016 and 2018 where her husband was honored and praised did not actively obstruct or have significant potential to obstruct the Dayton Agreement or its implementation instruments,” states the document that Robinson posted on his X account.
Robinson told that the summary judgment motion asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to rule that the 42-month period that OFAC needed to decide on Karadzic’s wife’s request to be removed from the sanctions list was unreasonably long.
Lawyer Robinson believes that this court action would be a reasonable delay measure, but also a guideline for protecting the rights of individuals in future decisions on erasure.
According to his expectations, the decision will not be made until the end of the year. In April 2020, Ljiljana Karadzic asked OFAC to lift the sanctions, claiming that the circumstances for her sanctions no longer apply because her husband was convicted.
The wife of the former president of Republika Srpska (RS), Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), appealed to the court in the United States (U.S.) because she waited 42 months for the decision rejecting her request to be removed from the list of sanctions.
Karadzic‘s wife, Ljiljana, submitted a request to the District Court in Columbia, considering that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) delay of 42 months to decide on her request to be removed from the U.S. sanctions list is unreasonable.
As stated in the submission of her lawyer Peter Robinson, U.S.courts need to hold OFAC accountable.
“The court should issue a declaratory judgment that would establish the delay as unreasonable. OFAC’s decision on the merits was arbitrary and capricious. Ljiljana’s mere presence at the two events in 2016 and 2018 where her husband was honored and praised did not actively obstruct or have significant potential to obstruct the Dayton Agreement or its implementation instruments,” states the document that Robinson posted on his X account.
Robinson told that the summary judgment motion asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to rule that the 42-month period that OFAC needed to decide on Karadzic’s wife’s request to be removed from the sanctions list was unreasonably long.
Lawyer Robinson believes that this court action would be a reasonable delay measure, but also a guideline for protecting the rights of individuals in future decisions on erasure.
According to his expectations, the decision will not be made until the end of the year. In April 2020, Ljiljana Karadzic asked OFAC to lift the sanctions, claiming that the circumstances for her sanctions no longer apply because her husband was convicted, N1 writes.
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