Dozens indicted in Bosnia in one of biggest post-war crime busts


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Thirty-two people were indicted in Bosnia on Wednesday for a string of murders and bank robberies in what prosecutors hailed as one of the biggest crackdowns on organised crime since the 1992-95 war.

The crimes stretch back over the past decade and illustrate how criminals from across Bosnia's ethnic divide have managed to work together while ethnic bickering on the political level has stalled the country's bid to join the European mainstream.

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