The President of the Serb-dominated sub-state, Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, slammed on Saturday one of the opposition leaders for accusing his party colleague and member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, PACE, of corruption.

A report released after a year-long independent investigation into some current and former PACE members found that some of them may have been bribed to soften the body’s criticism of the serious human rights violations in Azerbaijan.

Mladen Bosic from the opposition Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, and speaker of the state-level parliament, accused Dodik’s party colleague Milica Markovic of being one of the investigated PACE members.

She denied she was corrupt and said the claim was fabricated by Bosic.

“There was corruption, that’s true, but members from Germany, France, Spain and Italy were part of it,” Markovic said.

It is not the first time that the opposition was launching “lies” against him and his colleagues, Dodik said.