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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR AIDING TAX EVASION LARGER THAN BAM 3.5 MILLION
17.03.2020. 10:23Prosecutor and Head of the Section for Financial Crime within the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption has issued an Indictment against the following person: - Senad Svraka, born in 1966 in Rudo, residing in Sarajevo.
The accused is charged with having acted, in the period from 2008 to 2011, as an owner of the legal entity Elster Commerce d.o.o. Sarajevo /Limited Liability Company/, whose Director and responsible person without the restriction of responsibility was the suspect’s wife, and helped manage the incriminated business operations of the legal entity Elster Commerce d.o.o. Sarajevo, thus assisting her in the control of regular and illegal procurement, as well as in arranging with third parties to procure false and counterfeit invoices for the sale of coffee as high-tariff goods in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The accused is charged with having participated with his unlawful activities in creating the illusion that the coffee was of BiH origin, thus enabling unlawful deduction of the input VAT in the amount of around BAM 3.57 million, which is the amount of the damage incurred for the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The accused is charged with the criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud, referred to in Article 210, paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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