Top Official Quits In Embargo Case
From Times Wire Reports
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s top elected official resigned after investigators said he allowed a company to violate the U.N. arms embargo against Iraq.
Mirko Sarovic, chairman of Bosnia’s three-member multiethnic presidency, resigned after an investigation showed that he knew about and failed to stop the illegal exports of refurbished engines for Iraqi fighter planes. Sarovic was the Bosnian Serb president at the time.
The sales by the aviation company Orao violated a U.N. ban imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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