Prosecutor's Office of BiH investigating Dodik's purchase of a villa in Dedinje

Prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH on Monday requested documentation from Slobodan Majkl Pavlović, owner of "Pavlović banka", regarding the bank's operations during 2007, which is not in the bank, and is obliged to keep it until 2017, reveals Belgrade's "Novosti", reports the Patria news agency.

Citing unnamed sources, the paper states that Pavlović was asked to determine the status of the 2007 documentation, because if all traces of it are lost, it needs to be determined who was responsible for it and where the problem lies.

Prosecutors expect that the 2007 documentation could reveal other loans, not just the one received by Milorad Dodik for the purchase of a villa in the Belgrade neighborhood of Dedinje.

According to that source, Pavlović was told that the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, through colleagues from Serbia, has the ability to fully track the money that then-Prime Minister Milorad Dodik received as a loan from "Pavlović banka" to purchase the villa.

They were also interested in who Blago Blagojević from Bijeljina is, and Pavlović said that he is the former director of his company. It was interesting to the prosecutors how he simultaneously represented the interests of "Pavlović banka", which granted the loan to Dodik, and was his authorized representative for the transactions that were supposed to be carried out so that the then-Prime Minister Milorad Dodik could settle in the elite Belgrade neighborhood.

The conversation at the Prosecutor's Office of BiH opened the question of from which account, from which card, and how Pavlović personally, as a so-called natural person, paid the installments for the then-Prime Minister.

It is quite certain that Pavlović, if he does not help to establish everything that interests the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, could also be suspected and questioned in that capacity.

A criminal complaint against an organized group, including Milorad Dodik, Slobodan Pavlović, and several individuals from "Pavlović banka" suspected of committing several criminal offenses, was filed with the Prosecutor's Office of BiH by the SDS president Mladen Bosić.

In 2007, when he held the position of Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik transferred 750,000 euros from his account at "Pavlović banka" to the account of "Komercijalna banka" in Belgrade, also to his account, for the purchase of a villa in the elite neighborhood of Dedinje, and then in 2008 he applied for a loan to buy the villa, which means a year later.

The loan from "Pavlović banka" was approved for him, which was attempted to be presented as a reprogramming of a previous loan, so another 750,000 euros were transferred to Dodik's account. Unofficially, a group from "Pavlović banka" is suspected precisely of this transaction, as well as of repaying the alleged loan on behalf of Dodik in exchange for certain counter-services.

Bosić intended to submit this documentation as evidence during the court proceedings initiated against him by Milorad Dodik before the Basic Court in Banja Luka, due to the statement that he (Dodik) stole millions.

The court in Banja Luka did not accept the mentioned documentation about Dodik's loan from "Pavlović banka" as evidence, while members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), on the order of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, seized certain documentation from "Pavlović banka" related to this loan.