Karadžić's financial transgressions

In 2005, Milorad Dodik claimed that Radovan Karadzic took about EUR 18mn from the Republic of Srpska (RS) National Bank. “There are documents indicating that Karadzic took about EUR 36mn in a bag out of Banja Luka in 1997. First he took EUR 14mn in cash from a safe in the RS National Bank, and another time he took EUR 4mn more. By then, he had already been deposed, and was hiding from the arm of international law,” the RS prime minister said in an interview with daily Dnevni Avaz published on March 31, 2005. Karadzic's financial transgressions Recalling these claims, the daily states that Dodik explained that such a crime “never expires, and that an investigation is still possible if anyone is willing to initiate it.” “Shortly after this interview, Dodik became RS prime minister, but never launched an investigation into the fraud, for which he claimed to have evidence. Instead, he is now promising to help the Karadzic family,” the daily writes. In the same interview, asked when he expected Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to be finally caught, Dodik replied that he “did not wish to be a fortune-teller in this sense,” but that what he did know was that it all depended on government bodies, “above all, those in Serbia.” In an unrelated incident, Karadzic was accused of fraud during the Eighties. Accused of using tax payers' money to build a cottage in Pale, he was taken into custody in Sarajevo on November 1, 1984, but was released 11 months later for a lack of evidence. On September 26, 1985, he was sentenced in Sarajevo to three years imprisonment for embezzlement and deception, but he never served his sentence. Milorad Dodik (FoNet, archive)

Karadžić's financial transgressions

Recalling these claims, the daily states that Dodik explained that such a crime “never expires, and that an investigation is still possible if anyone is willing to initiate it.”

“Shortly after this interview, Dodik became RS prime minister, but never launched an investigation into the fraud, for which he claimed to have evidence. Instead, he is now promising to help the Karadžić family,” the daily writes.

In the same interview, asked when he expected Karadžić and Ratko Mladić to be finally caught, Dodik replied that he “did not wish to be a fortune-teller in this sense,” but that what he did know was that it all depended on government bodies, “above all, those in Serbia.”

In an unrelated incident, Karadžić was accused of fraud during the Eighties. Accused of using tax payers' money to build a cottage in Pale, he was taken into custody in Sarajevo on November 1, 1984, but was released 11 months later for a lack of evidence.

On September 26, 1985, he was sentenced in Sarajevo to three years imprisonment for embezzlement and deception, but he never served his sentence.