Bosnia and Herzegovina

07 Jan 1967

Bosnia and Herzegovina

B2721680, Passport

Branislav Okuka (Okuka) was closely involved with the planning and execution of RS Day and responsible for boosting attendance at the celebrations. Okuka was originally a part of an informal group of influential advisors to Dodik who had nationalist Serb and pro-Russia sympathies, supported RS independence, and focused on making plans to return power from BiH institutions to RS institutions. Dodik and Okuka worked together to plan strategies for a one-day withdrawal of Bosnian Serb officials from all BiH state-level institutions. Okuka and a group of Dodik allies also planned to resist any attempted arrest of Dodik by BiH authorities. Additionally, Okuka was the primary organizer of the “Borders Exist” protests that took place in fall 2023 along BiH’s Inter-Entity Boundary Line and created lists of Bosnian Serb officials who personally benefitted from an association with Dodik’s party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), to attend future protests. Okukais being designated pursuant to E.O. 14033 for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Dodik.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2175

2024-03-13

US

Executive Order 14033 Blocking Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western Balkans

OFAC country specific

Western Balkans

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

On June 8, 2021, pursuant to, inter alia, IEEPA, the President issued E.O. 14033. In E.O. 14033, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13219, as amended in E.O. 13304, finding that the situation in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (the Western Balkans), over the past two decades, including the undermining of post-war agreements and institutions following the breakup of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as widespread corruption within various governments and institutions in the Western Balkans, stymies progress toward effective and democratic governance and full integration into transatlantic institutions, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

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