INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST DUŠKO JORGIĆ FOR TAX EVASION

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has issued an Indictment against Duško Jorgić, charged with the criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud, as referred to in Article 210 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has issued an Indictment against Duško Jorgić aka Dule, born on 01 July 1968, resident of Banja Luka, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Indictment alleges that, on 05 June 2013 and 10 July 2013, Duško Jorgić, as an owner and a responsible person in the ‘Kuzman i Pupan’ /Kuzman and Pupan/ S.Z.R. /privately–owned crafts shop/ from Banja Luka, submitted VAT return forms of false content to the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the aim of exercising the right to indirect tax credit, thus acting in violation of the tax legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

These monthly VAT return forms pertaining to the tax periods of May and June of 2013 the accused created and filled out personally, and then he signed them, put the stamp of his company on them and submitted them to the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In such VAT return forms with false content, the accused knowingly entered false information on the realized deliveries and procurements, as well as on the amounts of input and output VAT, falsely presenting that the amount of his input VAT is higher than the amount of his output VAT; in that manner, he illegally requested VAT refund.   

With the aforementioned illegal activities, the accused presented indirect taxes in the total amount of BAM 79,954.00, which is the amount of the refund he would have requested pursuant to Article 52 of the Law on Value Added Tax; thus, he would have damaged the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina in that amount.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, together with police and law enforcement agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, resume its fight against tax evasions and economic crime, as those are the types of criminal offenses which undermine the economic system, damage the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina and harm the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.