Chief Prosecutor Warns Zubac

Salihovic addressed the public in relation to a report against him, which SIPA Director Goran Zubac filed with the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC.

In his address Salihovic said that, by filing the report, Zubac was trying to turn the attention of the public and HJPC “away from cases currently processed by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which his name is mentioned, among others.”

“I am inviting all citizens and Goran Zubac to file criminal and minor charges reports, just like he did. However, I am warning them that filing false reports represents a crime and that we shall take rigorous steps in such cases,” Salihovic said.

Salihovic did not specify what case he was referring to, but Semsudin Mehmedovic, whom SIPA arrested in July this year, said, in his previous media statements, that he had filed a report with the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Zubac for war crimes.

Mehmedovic, State Parliament member, was arrested on July 19 this year due to a suspicion that he committed war crimes in Tesanj in 1992 and 1993. He was arrested without permission from the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After that SIPA accused the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chief Prosecutor of obstructing the investigation into those crimes.

“We have had obstructions from the State Prosecution during the entire course of this investigation. We have not received support from Goran Salihovic, Chief Prosecutor, or his predecessors since 2009, when the investigation was opened for the first time,” SIPA spokesperson Kristina Jozic said at that time.

In his address Salihovic pointed out that “continuous pressure” had been put on the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chief Prosecutor over the course of the past few months, but the Institution would not succumb to the pressure.