Bosnia: Police raid home, office in war crimes hunt

Bosnia: Police raid home, office in war crimes hunt

She said the operation was carried out on orders of the Bosnian state court and that police confiscated computers and diskettes but made no arrests.

"There is a ... suspicion that Bajić is a member of the support network which helps Stojan Župljanin through financial and other means," Despenic said.

Bajić did not comment on the allegations of his involvement in the support network, but said he was not related to the Župljanin family.

He said he believed the main reason for the raid was a 300,000 Bosnian marka ($204,220) loan his bank had given to a company run by Župljanin's son in 2004, before a Serb-American businessman sold it to Slovenian NLB banking group.

"It is in our interest that everything regarding the loan and details of the raid be transparent," he said.

Župljanin is among six remaining Serbs or Bosnian Serbs wanted by the United Nations international war crimes tribunal to stand trial.

He was charged in 1999 for crimes against Muslims and Croats in western Bosnia early in the country's 1992-95 war.