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  • SAS in Bosnia bank seizure

    06/17/2002 9:04:56 AM PDT · by joan · 3 replies · 274+ views
    BBC ^ | June 17, 2002
    An SAS team helped end a mafia money-laundering racket by taking part in a raid on a Bosnian bank, it has emerged. Explosives experts from the elite British regiment managed to blow open three safes without destroying 3.5 million marks stored inside and also seized other vital evidence. Last year's mission in the southern Bosnian town Mostar was reportedly authorised by British commanders. It was believed that the money-laundering operation was funding a plot to set up a breakaway Bosnian Croat state. Deputy commander of the Nato-led Stabilisation Force (S-For), Major General Richard Dannatt, of the Green Howards Regiment gave...