Edin Vranj was released from custody today. This information was announced on the official Twitter profile by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bisera Turkovic.
“We welcome this decision. The co-operation of the prosecution in the prosecution of war crimes is necessary for normalization. We expect action in that direction in the cases of Osmanovic and Mujanovic as well! It is time to move from words to deeds in regional cooperation “, said Bisera Turkovic.
He was arrested upon entering Serbia, at the border crossing Uvac – Rudo, and his implementation in Belgrade is in progress, the media report.
According to available information, Vranj is suspected of war crimes. A warrant from the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia from 2018 was issued for him. Allegedly, these are crimes in the Gorazde area.
Vranj has a master’s degree in criminology and a doctorate in law, who received his criminology and security training in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Skopje. He spent a full 30 years in various operational and managerial jobs in the criminal police, more or less on all lines of crime prevention.
The public remembers him as the head of the Criminal Police Sector in the Federal Police Administration, and as the head of the Department for Organized and Inter-Cantonal Crime, whose inspectors at that time achieved notable results in arresting numerous and well-known criminals.
Edin Vranj left the Federal Police Administration in 2016, when he became the director of a private security agency.