Police in the Una-Sana Canton, in cooperation with the Intelligence and Security Agency (OSA), have arrested Alexandar Bezrukhovny in the area of Bosanska Krupa. According to unofficial information from FTV, he is one of the instructors who conducted training for a group of Moldovans near Banja Luka.
Initial reports indicate that he had been under surveillance by secret service officials for some time and was apprehended while preparing to flee the country. He has been handed over to the jurisdiction of the Foreigners Affairs Service.
The arrest comes after police in Moldova said in mid October that several hundred Moldovan citizens were trained in Russia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to incite street riots in order to overthrow the constitutional order in that country.
BiH authorities have denied the existence of Russian training camps, but stated they are aware of some form of training involving Moldovan nationals.
Ilija Cvitanovic, a member of the Joint Commission for Oversight of the Work of the Intelligence and Security Agency in BiH, spoke about these allegations for N1.
“We haven’t received details since these are operational matters, but there are no camps. At one point, suspicious individuals from the East were present in BiH, but there are no camps. The reasons for their stay in BiH are being determined,” Cvitanovic said at the time.
Bosnia’s Foreign Minister Elmedin Konakovic stated: “We had people who came in the name and on behalf of the Russian Federation and trained members of Moldovan teams”.
“I don’t have exact evidence or examples that these were military trainings, but there were certainly types of training related to organizing protests or public demonstrations. There is evidence, which I have personally seen, that such groups operated in BiH”, Konakovic added.
Nenad Nesic, BiH’s Minister of Security, also commented on the issue, stating that security agencies in the country have no information about the existence of any camps for training Moldovan nationals.
“The camp is not a needle that can be hidden. If such a thing really existed, I guess Moldova would have informed us, requested information, warned or sent a protest note. We never received any official letters from them. When such a problem exists, anywhere in the civilised world, it is solved by interstate police cooperation, and not by fabricated media headlines that serve exclusively for internal political calculations in Moldova”, said Nesic, commenting on a statement by the US Embassy regarding the issue.
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