Bosnian police, EUFOR stage raid on Croat company’s business premises
HINA
June 27, 2005

MOSTAR - The Federation police in Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported by the EU force (Eufor), on Monday morning [27 June] searched the main offices of the Lijanovic meat-processing company in Siroki Brijeg, and the flat of the head of the company's legal affairs department in Mostar.

The head of the Lijanovic legal affairs department, Zdenka Simunovic, was one of nine suspects when the judicial authorities launched an investigation against the leadership of this company on suspicion of white-collar crime. However, no indictment has been issued against her.

The search of her flat was finished before noon but it is not yet known whether any evidence was taken out of the flat.

The spokesman for the Croat-Muslim entity's police, Robert Cvrtak, declined to say anything about the operation, adding only that it was still under way.

"Federal police officers are carrying out certain activities following an order from the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina," Cvrtak told HINA on the phone. The information office of the Court, however, said that it had no knowledge about the police operation.
Shortly after 0600 hrs [0400 gmt] Monday, masked police officers with automatic weapons raided into the business premises of the Lijanovic company in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg. Since then other persons have not been allowed to enter the company's main offices.

A judge at the pre-trial proceedings in the case Lijanovic-Covic, Stephen D. Swanson, is said to have ordered on 20 June that the Lijanovic main offices be raided. (Excerpt)