Bosnian Security Minister, Selmo Cikotic has been formally charged on Wednesday with corruption and abuse of office for selling military equipment and weapons around a decade ago. At the time, Cikotic was the country’s defense minister.
Bosnia’s top court confirmed the indictment on December 8 accusing him of damages to the state estimated at over €5 million, reported local media RSE.
In the indictment, it says that Cikotic had altered a part in the terms and conditions of the contract which referred to the “violations in the procedure prescribed by law” on the sale of old weapons and military equipment, with the intent of favoring the buyer, respectively a Croatian company named SCOUT.
According to the indictment, Cikotic failed to notify the members of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency over the incurred changes.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is considered as one of the country’s with the highest tendency for corruption in Europe, exactly because of its complicated administrative framework and due to the deep ethnic and political divisions installed since the war.
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