Spasoje Tuševljak

Spasoje Tuševljak (Serbian Cyrillic: Спасоје Тушевљак; 28 May 1952)^[1] is a Bosnian Serb economist who served as the first Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina between June and October 2000.

Biography

Tuševljak is a professor at the Faculty of Economy in East Sarajevo. He is an owner of Konseko, an economic institute that operates in Belgrade, although registered in East Sarajevo.^[2] Tuševljak also owns another two companies, "Dom" and "CBC", both registered in Belgrade.^[3] At the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Hezegovina, Tuševljak managed affairs between Republika Srpska and FR Yugoslavia. As he had good relations with the Government of Republika Srpska, he was named a chief negotiator in the question of legal succession of the SFR Yugoslavia.^[2]

He was named the first Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an non-partisan candidate with the support of the Serbian Democratic Party.^[2] He held office between June and October 2000.

In November 2013, Tuševljak was arrested under suspicion that he illegally gained and disposed assets of the "Agrobanka" for his companies, damaging the bank for more than 651 million of Serbian dinars. He was arrested along with his associates, including the director of "Agrobanka" Dušan Antonić, as well as some officials of the "IO" bank. He was charged that he illegally gained and disposed assets granted to him between 2010 and 2012 without any assurance. In this way, his companies gained 651 million dinars.^[3]

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