Treasury Department said in a statement. Dodik, the pro-Russian president of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic RS who has long advocated the region's secession from Bosnia, is already under U. In October , Washington imposed sanctions against his two adult children - son Igor Dodik and daughter Gorica Dodik - and their companies, saying they facilitated the Bosnian Serb leader's ongoing corruption. In June , the U. On Wednesday, the U. Treasury Department said that Vladimir Perisic, the general director of Prointer ITSS, a company that was sanctioned in June, has continued to execute business decisions based on guidance by Igor Dodik.
It also said that the sanctioned Kaldera company has been replaced by a new company, Elpring, which has been effectively controlled by Igor Dodik. It therefore added both Perisic and Elpring to the sanctions list. The United States says Dodik has undermined the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian war in which , were killed. The pact divided the country into two autonomous regions, the Serb Republic and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, linked via a weak central government.
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