The raids came only days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) criticised Bosnian Serbs and Croats for their failure to co-operate with the tribunal.
Do pretresa je došlo samo nekoliko dana nakon što je glavni tužilac Međunarodnog krivičnog suda za bivšu Jugoslaviju (MKSJ), Karla del Ponte, kritikovala bosanske Srbe i Hrvate zbog nesaradnje sa tribunalom.