Leader of opposition party in BiH's RS entity Milan Milicevic arrested

Members of the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska (RS) and the Criminal Police Directorate have been conducting searches since this morning at the Teslic City Administration building, the family home of Milicevic, as well as the homes of two other members of the Teslic Municipal Assembly, according to a statement from the City Board of the SDS in the town.

According to information from the RS Ministry of Interior, those arrested are Milan Milicevic, Mehmed Dubravac, and Mesa Jasarevic. The RS Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office has also issued a statement.

"The Special Department of the RS Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office for the Suppression of Corruption, Organized, and the Most Serious Forms of Economic Crime is conducting an investigation against Milan Milicevic, Mehmed Dubravac, and Mesa Jasarevic on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that they committed the criminal offenses of accepting bribes and influence peddling. During the search, approximately 400,000 BAM was found in the possession of the individual with the initials M.M., and about 50,000 BA; with the individual M.D.," the Prosecutor’s Office stated.

The local SDS strongly condemned what it described as "brutal, politically motivated abuse of the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska and the Criminal Police Directorate, which openly serves as a weapon of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) regime to crack down on dissenters and overthrow the democratically elected government in Teslic".