Police made another arrest on Monday as part of the Republica Srpska Ministry of the Interior's "Operation Spring" campaign to combat corruption. A Doboj city sanitation inspector was arrested for allegedly accepting a 200 KM (approximately $US133) bribe in return for not conducting a required inspection.
"Operation Spring" has led to the arrest of four people, including one government official accused of bribery and another accused of abuse of office, according to reports in the Banja Luka newspaper “Serbian Voice.” In August, Srdjan Ljubojevic, a company director for the public forest management enterprise Šuma Srpske,was arrested for alleged accepting bribes worth 10,000 KM (approximately $US6,670) even as he failed to pay workers' salaries, according to multiple local media reports.