Local Justice – Doboj: Ninkovic Can Travel
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Ninkovic, the President of the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS in Doboj both during and after the war, addressed the media after the High Representative’s decision to abolish sanctions was announced.
“It is not that important to me to become involved in politics again. The most important thing is to have my travel documents returned to me, because some members of my family live outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Ninkovic said.
Ninkovic himself is suspected by the State Prosecution of war crimes committed in Doboj.
On June 10, Valentin Inzko, the High Representative, annulled sanctions against 92 people who were suspected of being members of a support network for war crimes indictees.
“This does not affect in any way the past, ongoing or future proceedings against the persons to whom these sanctions relate. Besides that, the decision does not represent encouragement to any of those individuals to go back to the political scene or the positions from which they were dismissed,” the High Representative said, explaining the decision.
The Cantonal Prosecution in Zenica opened an investigation into war crimes committed in Doboj in relation to command responsibility of Milan Ninkovic, former member of the Crisis Committee in Doboj, Andrija Bjelosevic, former Chief of the Safety Services Center, and Yugoslav National Army major Milovan Stankovic, former Commander of the Serb military formations.
During the course of 2005, the case was transferred from Zenica to the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which rated it as “a very complex, sensitive and expansive case”.
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