SIPA searched apartment and arrested Branka Šekarić for revealing identity of protected witness

Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) this morning (14 April 2016) searched a residential property used by a person with initials B.Š. (1976) in the area of Sarajevo, reports the Patria news agency.

This is Branka Šekarić, the wife of convicted war criminal Dragan Šekarić for crimes committed in 1992 in the Višegrad area. Šekarić was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

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The aforementioned activities were carried out with the aim of finding and temporarily seizing items that may be related to the commission of the criminal offense under Article 240 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Revealing the identity of a protected witness” in proceedings conducted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case against D.Š. The activities were conducted pursuant to an order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the Ministry of Interior of Sarajevo Canton.

 The person with initials B.Š. will be questioned in the official premises of SIPA as a suspect, and appropriate reports on the undertaken activities and temporarily seized items, as well as a report on the existence of grounds for suspicion regarding the committed criminal offense and the perpetrator, will be submitted to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the legal deadline.