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Bosnian Croat leader arrested in anti-graft police raid

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 14:46
The top leader of one of Bosnia's two semi-autonomous entities, the Muslim-Croat federation, and 18 other people were arrested on Friday in a wide anti-corruption probe, judicial sources said. Zivko Budimir, Bosnian Croat president of the Muslim-Croat federation which together with Serb-run Republika Srpska make up post-war Bosnia, was arrested in the action, prosecutor's spokesman Boris Grubesic said. "Nineteen people were arrested in this operation. We can confirm the arrest of Budimir," Grubesic said.

Bosnian regional president arrested in graft probe

April 26, 2013 14:31
By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and 19 others were arrested on Friday in an anti-corruption probe that also targeted the offices of the regional government, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said. The raid on Zivko Budimir's Sarajevo office and the regional government in the southern town of Mostar is the most high-profile anti-graft operation in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago.

Bosnia police raid top regional officials in graft probe

April 26, 2013 09:30
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Police in Bosnia raided the offices of the president and government in one of the country's two autonomous regions on Friday as part of an anti-corruption probe, the state prosecutor's office said. It appeared to be the most high profile raid of its kind since Bosnia seceded from federal Yugoslavia and descended into war in the early 1990s.

Bosnia Muslim MPs block top court appointment, holding up government reshuffle

March 21, 2013 16:45
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A seven-month power struggle in Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation deepened on Thursday as Bosnian Muslim lawmakers blocked the appointment of a judge to a top court, effectively blocking a government reshuffle. Political and ethnic rivalry in the Federation, one of two regions in Bosnia along with the Serb Republic, is symptomatic of the complex and unwieldy system of rule in the Balkan country under the peace accords that ended its 1992-95 war.

Bosnian Serb entity picks woman to lead new government

March 12, 2013 17:31
Bosnia's Serb entity on Tuesday picked its first female leader as it installed a new government that is hoped to scoop it out of the financial crisis that prompted the former coalition to resign. Zeljka Cvijanovic, 45, replaces outgoing prime minister Aleksandar Dzombic and is the first woman to lead the government since the US-brokered Dayton agreements ended the more than three-year long Bosnian war in 1995. The Dayton accords divided Bosnia into two semi-independent entities: the Serbs' Republika Srpska (RS) and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

Bosnian power struggle goes to court

February 15, 2013 14:30
* Impasse paralysing government in Bosnian region * Reflects unwieldy system of government after war * U.S. pushing to restructure Muslim-Croat Federation By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A court in Bosnia was asked to rule on a six-month power struggle in the country's autonomous Muslim-Croat Federation on Friday after Bosnian Muslim lawmakers blocked a motion to sack their ministers in the government.
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