Hasan Čengić
Hasan Čengić (; 30 August 1957 – 7 November 2021) was a Bosnian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Biography. Čengić was born in Foča, FPR Yugoslavia, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina on 30 August 1957. A Muslim cleric, he was convicted together with future president Alija Izetbegović by the communist regime of Yugoslavia in 1983 and served five years of a ten-year sentence. Čengić was a member of a powerful clan headed by his father Halid Čengić, the main logistics expert in the Bosnian Army and a  senior official, with his sons, in Bosnia's "Agencija za Informacije I Dokumentaciju" (AID) intelligence agency. He travelled frequently to Tehran since 1983 and was deeply involved in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia. During the Bosnian War, Čengić lived in Tehran and Istanbul. According to Austrian police, he was on the supervisory board of the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian organization connected to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network. Čengić's involvement was confirmed by the TWRA's director, Elfatih Hassanein. As Federal Minister of Displaced Persons and Refugees after the conflict , he was accused of intimidating Serb refugees returning to their homes, but never convicted. He served as a member of parliament from 1998 to 2002. The "Slobodna Bosna" newspaper argued that Čengić was the business partner of Russian mobster, arms dealer and former KGB officer Viktor Bout, nicknamed "the Merchant of Death". In May 2006, when 200,000 AK-47 assault rifles went missing in transit from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Iraq, one of Bout's airlines was the carrier. He served as president of the Parliament of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2015 until 2019, having lost re -election in 2018. Čengić died on 7 November 2021, at the age of 64.