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BELGRADE -- Two police officers from the (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska were arrested on Thursday while trying to smuggle a huge sum of forged (Yugoslav) dinars into Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia's minister of information said on Friday.
The officers of the Zvornik precinct, Ljuba Milic (born in Sarajevo in 1974) and Marinko Mijatovic (born in Zvornik in 1968), were caught while trying to cross into Yugoslavia in a VW Golf car, Goran Matic told a news conference.
Matic said the officers had told the investigators the forged currency was given them by agents of the security department of the Republika Srpska's government of Milorad Dodik.
Matic said Premier Dodik coordinated an operation of smuggling forged money into Yugoslavia, which was set in motion by (the Yugoslav republic of) Montenegro's presidential advisor, U.S. economist Steve Henke.
The purpose of the operation was to undermine confidence in the national currency and the Yugoslav economic system, Matic said.
According to him, U.S. economist Henke is a man who undermines economic systems, and is conducting his anti-Yugoslav operation out of Budapest, Hungary, and out of Podgorica, Montenegro.
Matic went on to say that Dodik's involvement in the campaign of state terrorism against Yugoslavia went beyond economic pressure and into direct criminal operations practiced by the Republika Srpska government.
He specified that the forged bills seized on Thursday were identical with those seized some three weeks ago when Yugoslav police arrested a group that had tried to smuggle into Yugoslavia between five million and six million forged dinars from Hungary.
The idea behind this grossest of interferences in Yugoslavia's internal affairs is to effect any kind of change of power, in the hope that some new government should absolve NATO leaders from culpability for crimes committed during NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia earlier this year.
More than 2,000 civilians were killed, more than 300 of them children, in the aggresion from March 24 to June 10.