{"id":26891,"date":"2021-12-08T19:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=26891"},"modified":"2021-12-08T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:43:29","slug":"bosnias-security-minister-indicted-on-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/bosnias-security-minister-indicted-on-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnia\u2019s security minister indicted on corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia\u2019s top court confirmed the indictment on December 8 accusing him of damages to the state estimated at over \u20ac5 million, reported local media RSE.<\/p>\n<p>In the indictment, it says that Cikotic had altered a part in the terms and conditions of the contract which referred to the \u201cviolations in the procedure prescribed by law\u201d on the sale of old weapons and military equipment, with the intent of favoring the buyer, respectively a Croatian company named SCOUT.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Cikotic failed to notify the members of Bosnia\u2019s tripartite presidency over the incurred changes.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina is considered as one of the country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/12\/03\/7-arrested-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina-over-war-crimes\/\">7 arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina over war crimes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/11\/17\/antony-blinken-warns-sanctions-against-bosnias-dodik\/\">Antony Blinken warns sanctions against Bosnia\u2019s Dodik<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/11\/08\/escobar-there-will-be-no-war-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/\">Escobar: There will be no war in Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s defense minister. Bosnia\u2019s top court confirmed the indictment on December 8 accusing him of damages to the state estimated at over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bosnia\u2019s security minister indicted on corruption charges - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/bosnias-security-minister-indicted-on-corruption-charges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bosnia\u2019s security minister indicted on corruption charges - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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