Bosnia’s Presidency Chairman told the media on Thursday that he was questioned at the Prosecutor’s Office as a witness in the case of the 300-year-old Orthodox icon he presented to Russia’s Foreign Minister, which Ukrainian authorities said was a piece of their country’s cultural heritage.
Dodik spoke to media after he was seen leaving the Prosecutor's Office on Thursday and stressed that he was not questioned as a suspect and that the case is based on “a false report by Foreign Affairs Minister Bisera Turkovic.”
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After Dodik gave Russia’s Sergey Lavrov the gilded icon in December, the Ukrainian Embassy in Sarajevo sent a note to the BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for detailed information on the origin of what it suspects is a piece of Ukraine's cultural heritage.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture said the icon could have been illegally taken from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk by mercenaries.
Bosnia’s Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the matter.
By the end of December, the icon was returned to Bosnia via the Bosnian ambassador in Moscow, per Russia’s request.
Dodik said prosecutors asked him “banal things,” such as who arranged Sergei Lavrov's visit”.
He would not reveal any more details.
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