Surveillance Claims Intensify Row Between Bosnian Officials

The conflict between Bosnia's Security Minister Dragan Mektic and the country's acting Chief Prosecutor, Gordana Tadic, which has been ongoing for months, reached a new peak this week.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Tadic's office said it had received documents indicating that her movements and conversations with the vice-president of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, Ruzica Jukic, had been monitored.

Jukic confirmed that she had also received the same material.

"Bearing in mind that the conversation [with Jukic] was authentic, the Prosecutor's Office will conduct a detailed analysis of the legality of these operations and of the persons who took part in the said activities," a statement from the prosecutor's office said.

Josip Simic Djindjic, a journalist from the Dnevno website, also told media on Wednesday that he had warned Tadic that she had been secretly monitored and her conversations recorded.

Republika Srpska state auditors resign

In another development, which also pointed to growing political interference with the work of state or entity institutions, the Chief Auditor in Republika Srpska, Dusko Snjegota, and the Deputy Auditor, Darko Pejic, both resigned on Thursday.

They quit their posts after RS President Dodik called for their dismissal on Wednesday, clearly dissatisfied with their reports, which had revealed numerous problems in the work of the mainly Serb entity's institutions.

The resignations have dismayed many, as for years, the post of RS Auditor was seen as one of the few remaining independent institutions in the entity seriously analysing the work its institutions and highlighting numerous problems and anomalies.

He said he had handed "transcripts of intercepted...