In the case of high corruption and organised crime, a prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment that refers to the criminal offences of organised crime, abuse of position or authority, conclusion of a harmful contract and money laundering, which were committed between 2005 and 2016, and for which 11 individuals and 4 legal entities are charged.

The indictment states that the first defendant, Nedim Uzunović, in his capacity of an organiser, and several other persons with whom he is related by family ties or in another way, acted as an organised group in accordance with their mutual agreements, planned and committed the criminal offences in order to acquire unlawful property gain contrary to the interests of the company Bosnalijek d.d. /JSC/, carried out financial transactions through several off-shore companies registered in the British Virgin Islands and Seychelles for the benefit of company accounts in Latvia, Cyprus and other countries, for alleged marketing or consulting services that were not supplied.

The indictment states that the first defendant, Nedim Uzunović, as the actual owner of off-shore companies and manager of the representative office of the company Bosnalijek d.d. in Moscow, with the intention of concealing the real source, nature and origin of the money, illegally injected it into legal financial flows by paying large sums of money into the accounts managed by him, as well as into the accounts of persons close to him, which was then used for various purposes, including for purchases of real estate, shares, vehicles and other valuables.

According to the collected evidence, the damage which the defendants caused to the company Bosnalijek d.d. Sarajevo amounts to BAM 10,849,609.43 and the property gain they acquired for themselves amounts to BAM 9,984,508.01. They further disposed of and used these funds in their business operations to buy tangible and intangible assets in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia by placing into legal financial flows the money for which they knew was acquired through the commission of criminal offences.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and partner institutions and agencies that took part in the investigation in BiH and abroad, especially the State Investigation and Protection Agency, documented hundreds of foreign and domestic financial transactions in large amounts and imposed a ban on the utilisation of certain funds and assets during the proceedings. The indictment will seek the seizure of a multimillion-dollar unlawful property gain, in individually determined amounts.

The defendants are as follows:

1. NEDIM UZUNOVIĆ, born in 1976 in Mostar, citizen of BiH,

2. EMIN HADŽIOMEROVIĆ, born in 1948 in Kotor Varoš, citizen of BiH,

3. JASMINA UZUNOVIĆ, born in 1979 in Banja Luka, citizen of BiH,

4. SEAD UZUNOVIĆ, aka “Sejo”, born in 1952 in Konjic, citizen of BiH,

5. MUNIR ĆUKLE, born in 1970 in Konjic, citizen of BiH,

6. NADIJA ĆUKLE, born in 1978 in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH,

7. ALMA TURAJLIĆ, born in 1985 in Banja Luka, citizen of BiH,

8. AZIZ ŠUKALO, born in 1958 in Foča, citizen of BiH,

9. VEDAD TUZOVIĆ, nicknamed “Vedo”, born in 1976 in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH,

10. BOGDAN JOKOVIĆ, born in 1958 in Belgrade, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia,

11. ANEL VRTIĆ, aka “Crni”, born in 1976 in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH,

12. Legal entity “SERRETA INVESTING” d.o.o. /Ltd/ Sarajevo,

13. Legal entity “LIBERO 5” d.o.o. Konjic,

14. Legal entity “TURIST BEST” d.d. Konjic, and

15. Legal entity “EMKO GRAĐENJE” d.o.o. Roznica.

The prosecution is going to prove the allegations of the indictment by calling 24 witnesses, an expert witness, as well as by attaching hundreds of evidentiary materials, including international documents obtained within mutual legal assistance from the judicial institutions of Latvia, Cyprus, Croatia, Slovenia, etc.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.