Sakib Mahmuljin (born 13 October 1952) is a Bosniak politician and former military leader who served as the commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) during the Bosnian War.

In the aftermath of the battle, foreign mujahideen embedded with the 3rd Corps killed more than fifty Bosnian Serb prisoners of war, some of whom were beheaded.

Between 1970 and 1989, Mahmuljin worked for the Department of Traffic and Finance of the Yugoslav People's Army (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslovenska narodna armija; JNA) in Čapljina.

Mahmuljin was subsequently appointed to the General Staff of the newly created Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine; ARBiH).

[2] Two of Mahmuljin's brothers, Omer and Nagib, were killed at the Omarska camp, near Prijedor, which was operated by the Army of Republika Srpska (Serbian: Vojska Republike Srpske; VRS) from May to August 1992.

He dismissed threats by local HVO officials to blow up the factory rather than let it fall into the hands of the ARBiH, arguing that such a move would result in an "environmental calamity" that would spell "the end for the 15,000 people in Vitez.

They were later taken to a detention facility on the outskirts of Zenica, where they were beaten, tortured and sexually assaulted by mujahideen, and kept in a shed without food or water for two days.

[8] In December 1995, representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia convened in Dayton, Ohio and agreed to a negotiated settlement to end the Bosnian War.

Shortly after the signing of the Dayton Agreement, Mahmuljin arranged for 89 foreign fighters and their families to settle in the village of Donja Bočinja, near Maglaj, which formerly had a Serb majority.

[15] The position had previously been occupied by Hasan Čengić, who was removed at the insistence of U.S. officials unnerved by his close ties to the Government of Iran.

Mahmuljin and several other senior Bosnian government officials continued to protect hundreds of foreign fighters who remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina even after the end of the war, despite U.S. demands that they be expelled from the country.

A tense stand-off ensued, and the following day, the prison officials agreed to release Škrbić and Skrebić, who were then ferried to Banja Luka by helicopter.

In 2008, Delić was found guilty of failing to prevent the killing and mistreatment of Bosnian Serb prisoners by foreign mujahideen and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

[20] On 12 March 2015, Boris Grubešić, the spokesman for the Bosnian State Prosecutor's office, announced that the allegations of war crimes that had been leveled against Mahmuljin would not be investigated.

[22] War crimes prosecutors charged Mahmuljin with failing to prevent the mistreatment and killing of more than fifty Bosnian Serb captives, as well as the abuse of around twenty others, following the Battle of Vozuća.

[24] On 15 June 2016, former prisoner Miodrag Samac testified that foreign mujahideen had forced him to kiss the severed head of fellow captive Gojko Vujičić at a detention camp in the village of Gostovići.

"[26] On 9 December 2020, Mahmuljin delivered a statement before the court in which he said that no civilians had been killed by the 3rd Corps while he was its commander and that he had never issued orders that contravened international law.

[27] On 22 January 2021, Mahmuljin was found guilty of failing to prevent the killing and mistreatment of Bosnian Serb prisoners and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.

[24][28] At the appeal hearings, the prosecution urged the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to not only uphold the original verdict but also to increase Mahmuljin's sentence to 20 years' imprisonment.

[34] In late November, the judiciary of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued an international arrest warrant for Mahmuljin,[35] and in March 2023 a request for extradition, both of which have remained unanswered by the Turkish authorities.