State Court

Sakib Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Third Corps of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, was sentenced by the Appeal Chamber of the State Court in April to eight years in prison for crimes committed in 1995 in Vozuca and Zavidovici.

But he is not serving his jail sentence and is instead undergoing medical treatment in Turkey, his lawyer confirmed to BIRN. 

The court decision comes after Petkovic, who is now in Serbia, was due to enter his plea on June 16, but failed to appear in court. The State Court said that he had also failed to attend an earlier hearing on March 10 this year.

Former Bosnian defence minister Selmo Cikotic was charged on Monday with having abused his official position as defence minister from 2009 till 2011 by unlawfully favouring a buyer to the detriment of the ministry he led when planning the export and sale of surplus outdated weapons, ammunition and military equipment.

The opposition in parliament in Bosnia's Federation entity has called for the dismissal of the government led by caretaker Prime Minister Fadil Novalic, who was detained for three days as a suspect in an investigation into the purchase of allegedly overpriced Chinese respirators.

Bosnia's State Prosecution has asked the State Court to issue a warrant and order custody for Goran Tesic, who is on trial for crimes committed in the eastern town of Vlasenica and has gone missing.

Bosnia's State Court on Monday pronounced Amir Haskic guilty of planning to go to a battlefield abroad, but exempted him from penalties because he refrained from committing the crime.

Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik said on Tuesday that his ruling Alliance of the Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, was no longer pushing for a referendum on the jurisdiction of the state courts over the courts of the Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska.

Bosnia's State Court on Friday ordered Fahrudin Radoncic, the tycoon and leader of the Alliance for the Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBBBiH, back into detention.

He had violated the restrictions imposed on him during house arrest, the court said by way of explanation.

Bosnia's ruling coalition is likely to survive the political turmoil created in recent weeks by the arrest of the politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic, experts say.

A Bosnian prosecutor has asked the country's State Court to extend the detention of Husein Bilal Bosnic and four others by an extra two months.

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