Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year
2024
Issuing Entity
US
Type
Individual
Institution
US Department of Treasury
Executive Order
E.O. 14033
Grounds
Destabilisation
Additional information
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.
