Protection Agency

Twelve people were arrested in Bosnia on Monday on suspicion of fixing the results of football matches in the top two tiers of the Bosnian championship, a spokesman for the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, told BIRN.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, has called on the public to assist in identifying those suspected of involvement in an attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic at a ceremony to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre in July 2015.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, has arrested 10 people in relation to a scam in which a now-defunct bank in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity issued nearly 123 million KM - 63 million euros - in fraudulent loans and guarantees.

The State Prosecutor said their actions "caused damage to the banking system and the financial status of the Bosnia and Herzegovina".

The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, which is in charge of the fight against terrorism and organized crime in Bosnia, is still conducting operations in Republika Srpska, even though the government of the Serb-dominated entity has halted cooperation with the agency.

The Republika Srpska interior ministry will sign a new cooperation agreement with the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on Wednesday after strong international criticism of the Serb authorities' decision last week to cut ties and ban the state-level police body from the entity.

Bosnia's State Intelligence and Protection Agency, SIPA, raided the premises of Pavlovic International Bank in the northeastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina on Wednesday.

They entered the bank "under a mandate given by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is investigating a possible case of illegal transactions", the spokesperson of SIPA confirmed to BIRN.

Bosnia's State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested three persons after raids in six locations in the north of Bosnia, searching for the people behind the illegal production of various documents.

The alleged counterfeiters are also being arrested in Croatia as part of a months-long investigation in the two countries focusing on activities committed from 2013 to 2015.

Bosnia's State Investigative and Protection Agency, which had been under pressure to make arrests over the high-profile incident at the July 11 commemoration, held the suspects for questioning for several hours on Tuesday before releasing them, a Bosnian government official told BIRN.

Bosnian police in cooperation with colleagues in France have arrested seven persons and raided several sites, targeting organized crime rings and human traffickers. The raids took place in Zenica, Vlasenica, Jajce and Prijedor.

The joint action, code-named CD, targeted human traffickers in relation to labour exploitation, stealing and begging in France.

The State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, told Balkan Insight on Monday that it has received information from the Intelligence-Security Agency, OSA, about the possibility of new attacks by militants in the wake of last week's shooting.