Prominent Bosnian businessman killed in mafia-style shooting

Prominent Bosnian businessman killed in mafia-style shooting
By bne IntelliNews April 23, 2019

Slavisa Krunic, a prominent Bosnian Serb businessman, was shot dead near his home north of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska, the entity’s interior ministry said on April 23.

It provided few details, but local media reported that Krunic was ambushed late on April 22 in his car by an unknown number of gunmen. His bodyguard and one of the gunmen also died.

Krunic’s death raised many questions as he has spoken out against Milorad Dodik, member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency and the leader of Bosnia's main Serb nationalist party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD). Dodik was previously president of Republika Srpska. 

In a recent interview with Bosnian television, Krunic criticised the SNSD and Dodik, accusing him of stoking ethnic tensions in the country as a distraction from corruption. He has also claimed he had been pressured to sell his company because he had hired ethnic Croatians and Muslim Bosniaks along with Serbs, Radio Free Europe reported.

Bosnia’s state-level Defence Minister Dragan Mektic 

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