Chronology of deception: Dodik’s and Čović’s Plan B for election

The Russian intelligence services are directly involved in the election process in BiH, prove the documents owned by the Zurnal. The main goal of these services is to install Dragan Čović and Milorad Dodik in the BiH Presidency.

The plan was designed in early May this year when, according to reports from foreign intelligence services, former head of the Russian intelligence service Nikolai Patrushev, HDZ vice president Milijan Vaso Brkic and HDZ leader Dragan Covic met near Trogir.

"The topic of the meeting were the upcoming elections in BiH and the re-election of Dragan Čović as a member of the BiH Presidency. In addition to retaining Dragan Čović, the goal is to keep Russian political, business and economic and strategic-intelligence interests on the territory of BiH and Croatia", read the documents we published in early July this year.

All activities that Dragan Čović, Milijan Vasko Brkić and Milorad Dodik undertook after this meeting prove that the Russian plan is being implemented in detail.

Some ten days after a meeting with the Russian high-ranking intelligence officer in Mostar, Dragan Covic and Milorad Dodik met. According to media reports, Dodik then stated that he "met with Covic in order to analyze the implementation of earlier agreements".

"In this respect, our individual candidates for the BiH Presidency will have undoubtedly great support," said Milorad Dodik on May 14th, 2018 after meeting with Covic.

"Since the election law has not been changed, we will implement "Plan B ". I am convinced that we will win this election convincingly, "explained Dragan Covic at that time.

A week later, more precisely on May 21st, 2018, HDZ Croatian Vice President Milijan Vaso Brkic issued "guidelines" for the presidents of all county boards of HDZ Croatia to "register voters for correspondence vote". Brkic, in a document bearing the HDZ logo, said that up to 9500 Croats living in Croatia had voted in BiH so far, but that number is significantly higher.

"As the data is being updated, you will be provided with new lists," Brkic wrote.

While Brkic and his team, in accordance with the agreement with Nikola Patrushev, registered voters in Croatia, on May 30th this year in Banja Luka, Konstantin Malofeev, a Russian billionaire who is on the black lists of the European Union and USA, came to the meeting with Dodik.

Malofeev is one of the main Putin’s people who are funding the separatist regimes in Ukraine. Dodik – Malofeev meeting did not happen after all, because BiH security services made a decision to ban this Russian businessman from entering BiH. Therefore, Constantine Malofeev was returned from the Banja Luka airport, despite the interventions by the Russian ambassador to BiH.

"Malofeev came to BiH four times in 2017, in February, September and October. In November 2017, he came to a secret meeting with Dodik and then his entry was not registered", states a document of one of the security services.

Konstantin Malofeev also came to Banja Luka during the 2014 elections when he met with Milorad Dodik, and then came with Cossacks who had previously participated in separatist actions in the Crimea. Given that local agencies had information that Malofeev should intervene in the election process, he is still banned from entering BiH this year.

However, in order to influence the election process itself, it was necessary before that to provide the support of the Central Election Commission of BiH. First, on March 13 this year, the Russian ambassador to BiH, Petr Ivancov, visited the Central Election Commission of BiH where he met with Irena Hadziabdic and Suad Arnautovic.

At the meeting, the reactivation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the CEC BiH and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, which was signed in 2010 by Maya Grišina and Irena Hadžabdić, was agreed upon.

For the implementation of this Memorandum, Ambassador Ivancov authorized Alexey Semenikhin, whose business card he left to Irena Hadziabdic. Only a few days after that, the president of the CEC of Bosnia and Herzegovina traveled to Moscow for the "monitoring mission of the Russian presidential elections", and when returning, she said that "the elections in Russia were regular".

After announcing the elections in BiH, members of the Central Election Commission of BiH decided that the voting material, that is, all the leaflets would be printed by companies close to Milorad Dodik, namely - the Official Gazette of Republika Srpska, Nezavisne novine, Banja Luka, and Grafomark from Laktaši. The same companies will also print polling forms, as well as other supporting material for the conduct of elections.

Somehow, at the same time, the process of registering voters voting by mail was taking place in Croatia and Serbia. The action, conducted under the supervision of Milijan Vase Brkic, and one of the directors of the Croatian Post, Mario Bebic, resulted in a dramatic increase in voters who voted by post from Croatia. Unlike 9500, that were registered in 2014, more than 24,000 voters were registered this year alone in Croatia.

Similar to what happened in Croatia, in Serbia, the number of correspondent voters has increased drastically, with 14,700 voters registered this year. The total number of registered voters who vote by mail this year is 77 thousand.

During the elections in 2014, the number of these voters was by 35 thousand less. The increase in the number of correspondent voters was recorded mainly in the municipalities controlled by Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović. In Bratunac, therefore, the number of voters who voted by post from the previous 744 rose to 1833, most of which was registered in Serbia. A similar situation exists in Bijeljina, Doboj, Šamac, where this number has also tripled. In just four municipalities, the number of "correspondent voters" increased by around 5,000.

In the Federation of BiH, primarily in areas controlled by the HDZ BiH, the number of voters voting by post also drastically increased. In Gornji Vakuf there was an increase by 1200 voters, Jajce by 1100, Kiseljak with 500, Domaljevac by 1000 ... After the increase in the number of "correspondent voters" at least 500 citizens reported identity theft to the Central Election Commission of BiH.

Most of them were registered at fictitious addresses in Croatia and Serbia. However, during all this time, the Central Election Commission of BiH was silent.

Link to documents  

(zurnal.info)