BiH Presidency member, Milorad Dodik, said at a pre-election gathering in Brcko on Wednesday that he was eavesdropping on US Ambassador Michael Murphy.

“We also listening in on to them now, it’s not only them listening in on us. I know what they are talking about. This was not possible just five or six years ago. You couldn't even think about listening in on the American ambassador, and now we just have to click, and we know what he is doing,” said Dodik.

His statement on Wednesday came just a few hours after the US ambassador met with the RS Interior Minister, Dragan Lukac, and the Chief of Police in the RS, Sinisa Kostresevic, to discuss the security situation, the rule of law and the importance of the fight against corruption for the future of the entity and BiH.

This is not the first time Dodik has mentioned eavesdropping. In May 2020 he told the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity that he wiretapped politician Drasko Stanovukovic and others from the opposition.