Bosnia's Parliament member, Semsudin Mehmedovic, said on Tuesday he received an official confirmation that a criminal procedure against him for alleged war crime suspicion has been suspended due to lack of evidence.

Semsudin Mehmedovic, an MP of the ruling Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), was reported in 2005 for alleged war crimes in the Bosnian town of Tesanj, his hometown, and was arrested in 2013 on the grounds of this report.

On Tuesday, Bosnia's Prosecutor's Office informed Mehmedovic that the procedure is suspended, 13 years after officially launched.

He assessed the report as a “media-propaganda show, directed by various persons.” According to him, the arrest was “illegal.”

“After all, I can tell that I am proud of my past and that you didn't manage to besmirch it,” Mehmedovic said without specifying to whom he referred.

The MP was arrested on July 19, 2013, within a police operation codenamed “Ozren” on a suspicion of committing the criminal act of war crime during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Mehmedovic had acted as the Chief of Police Precinct Tesanj during the period 1991-93, and as the Head of the Security Service Centre of Doboj, with the seat in Tesanj, during the 1993-95 period.

According to SDA's MP, the many were competing in telling as much of “bad and dishonourable” words as possible about him and defenders of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“This means yet another legal battle for the identification of the legal character of the battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina's independence has been won,” he underlined.

Mehmedovic urged all patriotic forces in the country to leave their differences aside and not to allow “the special war methods” to take them to the path that means anti-state activity and radical jeopardising of the future.

This is the victory of Bosnia and Herzegovina's institutions, he said, and it gives hope to the citizens that justice is alive in the country.