Although the question was raised whether the accused leader of the Alliance for Better Future (SBB) and a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Fahrudin Radončić should be deprived of access to top secret data, the Minister of Security of BiH Dragan Mektić confirmed that Radončić has no access to data with the tag of strict confidentiality.
Based on the Law on Access to Classified Information, as a delegate in the House of Peoples Radončić has access to secret data. However, according to Mektić, that does not include all degrees, but exclusively the degrees of internal and confidential.
“With the very appointment to a function, delegates in the Parliamentary Assembly and the House of Peoples obtain the right to access certain secret information. However, not everyone has equal access to secret data because there are certain degrees. Radončić can access information to the degree of internal and confidential and, as the Minister of Security, cannot deny that right to him, regardless of the fact that he is in house arrest,” Mektić said.
The Law stipulates that the issuance of permit is denied to persons against whom a criminal procedure that entails a penalty lasting for more than three months is being led. Given the indictment against Radončić, the question arises to which extent the permit for access to internal and confidential information that Radončić possesses will affect the trial process in general.
Although Radončić signed a statement on keeping data confidentiality as a delegate, given his current status this confidentiality now depends solely on him, until the Collegium of the House of Peoples launches an initiative for the denial of access to secret data.
Ognjen Tadić, member of the Collegium of the House of Peoples of BiH, confirmed that the House of Peoples of BiH has not yet received official confirmation of the current status of Fahrudin Radončić and the process being led against him neither from the Court of BiH, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, SIPA or the Intelligence and Security Agency (OSA).
(Source: klix.ba)
