PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE OD BIH FORWARDED THE MOST VOLUMINOUS INDICTMENT FOR FINANCIAL CRIME V KEKEROVIĆ ET AL. TO THE COURT OF BIH

The Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption Prosecution forwarded an indictment in the case v Mlađen Kekerović et al. to the Court of BiH. The indictment refers to 23 natural and legal persons charged with criminal offenses of organized crime, money laundering and tax evasion, prevention of evidence collection and counterfeiting or destruction of business or commercial books or documents.

The indictment, which refers to 11 individuals and 12 legal persons or companies located in Banja Luka, Laktaši, Kozarska Dubica, Prijedor, Modriča, Novi Grad and Brod, was forwarded to the Court of BiH along with 17 binders containing over 1000 pieces of evidence.

The accused persons are alleged to have, during a long time period,  acted in unison as an organization and to have perpetrated, in mutual agreement, tax evasions and illegal VAT refunds in the amount of about  BAM 10 million. This is a major indictment issued for the criminal offenses of financial crime in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH continues its investigation into this matter with the aim of detecting and proving the responsibility of the suspected authorized officials of the Indirect Taxation Authority, who have enabled illegal VAT refunds in the multimillion amounts.

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH continues its fight against organized crime and corruption in order to protect the rule of law and economic system of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as to create a safer living environment for all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in light of our country's path to European integration.