SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)--The leader of Bosnia's main Croat political party and a former high-ranking Muslim official have been charged with abuse of office, a court said Friday. 

Croat Democratic Union president Dragan Covic and former prime minister Edhem Bicakcic are accused of wrongfully allocating 7.6 million convertible marks (EUR3.9 million) from the budget to buy flats for 52 civil servants, said the Court of Bosnia-Hercegovina. 

Bicakic and Covic allegedly carried out the crime in 1999, when they were the respective prime minister and finance minister of the Muslim-Croat Federation, one of the two entities that make up post-war Bosnia. 

Those who allegedly received the funds illegally include Nedzad Brankovic, the federation's current prime minister. 

Bicakcic and Brankovic have already been charged by Sarajevo county court with abuse of office over the government's decision to buy an apartment for Brankovic for EUR130,000. 

Last year the court dropped organized crime charges against Covic due to a technicality. 

Following its 1992-95 war, Bosnia was split into two highly autonomous entities - the Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation - each with its own president, prime minister and parliament.