Milorad Dodik, the Chairman of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency was in the Prosecutor's Office in connection with the case concerning the 300-year-old Ukrainian icon which he presented to Russian Foreign Minister in December 2020 who stayed in a two-day visit to Sarajevo, the Prosecution said Thursday.
“Regarding several media inquiries, we can confirm that the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, was interrogated in the Prosecutor's Office, regarding the case known as the ‘Icon’. We cannot provide any more information or details at this time,” the BiH Prosecutor's Office stated.
Because of the “Icon” affair, Ukrainian Ambassador to BiH and Croatia Vasyl Kyrylych visited Sarajevo recently, where he met with Foreign Minister Biser Turkovic and Chief State Prosecutor Gordana Tadic. He requested the disputed case be excluded, Ukrainian experts who, together with domestic experts, would determine all the circumstances related to the icon be allowed to come to the country.
The Ambassador was reiterated that Ukraine never allowed the export of the icon from the country because the object represents a cultural value of state importance.
How the disputed icon arrived in BiH and how it came into Dodik’s possession is still unclear.
Milorad Dodik said earlier that the icon of Saint Nicholas was safe, in a safe in his office in East Sarajevo, which is, in the Republika Srpska (RS) entity Government building. No one has confirmed these allegations so far.
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