Dodik Questioned Over Banned Referendum

Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska is pictured on an election poster calling for votes for a referendum on their Statehood Day in Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

BELGRADE - The president of Bosnia and Herzegovina's autonomous Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, was questioned on Friday for holding a referendum in violation of a ruling of the country's Constitutional Court, the Bosnian prosecutor's office said on Friday.

Dodik is accused of organizing a referendum on celebrating the Republika Srpska Day, which violated the Constitutional Court's decision that banned the vote. "Suspect Dodik is under investigation over links to criminal non-compliance with the decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina," Boris Grubesic, press secretary of the Bosnian prosecutor's office, said.

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