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Police conducted new searches in the "Diploma" affair, here is who is under scrutiny now

In the affair in which Denis Prcić and Osman Mehmedagić were arrested earlier, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina extended the investigation to several people

Police in front of the building in Čengić Vila. M. Aščić

M. Aščić

The Sarajevo police, on the order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, conducted a new search in the "Diploma" affair, the "Avaz" portal has learned.

Prcić and Mehmedagić were arrested earlier

As we find out, the apartment of Amina Pekić, an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was searched. Today, she was questioned as a suspect in the Prosecutor's Office of B&H, in the presence of lawyer Jesenka Rešidović, which is confirmed by the photos of her published by "Avaz" in front of this judicial institution.

The search began at 2 PM and ended at 5:15 PM. Along with Pekić, her lawyer was also in the apartment. The search was conducted in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Čengić Vila, and the police seized certain documents.

In the "Diploma" affair, in which Denis Prcić, owner of the American University in B&H, and Osman Mehmedagić, director of the ISA Intelligence and Security Agency, were arrested earlier, the B&H Prosecutor's Office expanded the investigation to several people because there is a high degree of suspicion that other diplomas from the American University in B&H were also forged, and are used by employees in B&H institutions.


Amina Pekić: She testified in the Prosecutor's Office. M. Aščić

According to the information that „Avaz“ has, one of the forged diplomas was identified as a diploma from the American School of Public Administration, which is in the possession of Pekić, the sister of Mehmedagić's close associate Muhamed Pekić, who was accused in the "Recordings" affair.

The Prosecution obtained information that there was no evidence of graduation in the Pekić's personal file, but Bisera Turković and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by her, refused to forward the requested information to the Prosecutor's Office. However, members of the SC MUP last week, on the order of the Court of B&H, seized Pekić's personal file and forwarded it to the Prosecutor's Office.


Serious shame for B&H

Prosecutors believe that Pekić, with a forged diploma, is working in the B&H diplomatic mission in Brussels with NATO, as an employee of the B&H MFA.

The Prosecution considers that the use of a forged diploma in such an important place represents "a serious shame for BiH and a huge damage to the reputation of B&H in the world", about which the B&H MFA has already written.