Ante Jelavic

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Ante Jelavić (born August 21, 1963 in Podprolog , Vrgorac , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician with Croatian ethnicity. From 1998 to 2002 he was party leader of the Croatian Democratic Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) in Bosnia and Herzegovina . On July 28, 1998, Jelavić resigned as Minister of Defense of the Federation, justifying this step with the fact that he wanted to dampen concerns of the international community about possible conflicts of interest. He had previously been criticized for the political activities of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for his unwillingness to fulfill the Dayton Treaty.

In the elections for the collective state presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998 he prevailed as the Croatian candidate of the HDZ BiH with over 70 percent of the votes and became a member of the three-member state presidency and its chairman and head of state from June 15, 1999 to February 14, 2000 .

On March 7, 2001, Jelavić, along with his party friends Ivo Andric Lužanski, Zdravko Batinic and Marko Tokic , was deprived of all offices by the UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina , Wolfgang Petritsch, because of violations of the Bosnian constitution and the Dayton Agreement : chairmanship and membership in the Croatian self-government in Mostar, membership in the Council of the Bosnian-Croatian Federation and the party chairmanship as well as all party functions within the HDZ BiH.

On January 23, 2004, Jelavić was arrested in Mostar . It was accused of planning the secession of the Croatian part of the country and in the Hercegovacka Banka scale funds embezzled to have. On October 6, 2005, he was sentenced in absentia to 9.5 years imprisonment by a court in Sarajevo for supporting Croatian military units with Bosnian money during his time as Bosnian Defense Minister in 1997/1998, and fled with an initially unknown goal. The judgment was overturned in the summer of 2006 to allow a new trial. According to his own statements, he is aiming for a trial in Croatia , where he appeared in the newspaper Večernji list in 2006 . Since he also has Croatian citizenship , he cannot be extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina under the current legal situation.

On April 8, 2009, Jelavić was kidnapped near his home in Zagreb and allegedly taken to Rama in Bosnia-Herzegovina in a car . However, he was able to escape the following day.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anes Alic: Influential Bosnian Trio Arrested ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 26, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tol.cz
  2. ↑ Wanted ex-minister sighted and Jelavić wants a new court hearing , ORF , November 17, 2006
  3. ↑ Press release of April 9, 2009, release of April 13, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Jelavić, Ante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Podprolog