Mission using his personal resources, including fees from his speaking engagements, and by soliciting contributions from sympathetic nations. As Sacirbey concedes, funds earmarked for one project were often spent on another, and personal bank accounts were used to house those funds. See J.A. 11-12 (Affidavit of Muhamed Sacirbey, Mar. 17, 2005, at ¶¶ 21-27).[5]
Sacirbey resigned from his ambassadorship and returned to private life in the United States in December 2000. After his resignation, Sacirbey claims to have learned that Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, a perceived political adversary of Sacirbey and allegedly a former official in the Communist Party, had launched an investigation of him. In early 2001, the Foreign Ministry requested that the Cantonal Prosecutors Office in Sarajevo[6] investigate alleged financial irregularities at the U.N. Mission duringUnited States Department of Justice dated January 29, 2002. Bosnia's request was made pursuant to an extradition treaty executed in 1902 by the United States and the Kingdom of Serbia (the "Treaty"),[8] which provides, in part, that
The Government of the United States and the Government of Servia [sic] mutually agree to deliver up persons who, having been charged with or convicted of any of the crimes and offenses specified in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the high contracting parties, shall seek an asylum or be found within the territories of the other: Provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would