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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF VOTING FRAUD
25.06.2020. 09:46The indictment was filed against:
- JOVAN KOŠUTIĆ, born in 1978 in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH.
The accused is charged that on 7 October 2018, during the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he as a member of the Polling Station Committee at the Trnjaci Polling Station in the Brčko District of BiH, voted instead of another person under his name.
He is charged that he fraudulently, without the knowledge of four voters, who did not go to the polls and exercised their right to vote, falsified their signatures on the voter list, signed and voted instead of them under their names.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.
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