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SECOND ACCUSED IN KLEMENT BARBIĆ ET AL. CASE PLEADED GUILTY BY AGREEMENT; PRISON TERM AND FINE PROPOSED

03.10.2019. 12:00

 In the case of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, the accused of the criminal offence of Organised Crime in conjunction with other criminal offences of financial crime and forgery of documents, has fully pleaded guilty.

SECOND ACCUSED IN KLEMENT BARBIĆ ET AL. CASE PLEADED GUILTY BY AGREEMENT; PRISON TERM AND FINE PROPOSED

Valentino Barbić, born in 1982 in Sarajevo, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia, charged within the organised crime case, in the presence of his defence counsel fully pleaded guilty to the offences. 

The accused fully admitted his involvement in an organised criminal group, which, by falsifying documents, fictitiously procured various machines for which they illegally claimed input VAT refunds, fictitiously reported thefts and fraudulently collected high sums of insurance, thus acquiring unlawful property gain and inflicting damage to several leasing companies and insurance companies. 

Pursuant to the agreement, the Prosecutor and the Accused have agreed that the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina should impose on the Accused a one-year prison sentence as the main sentence and additionally a fine of BAM 60,000. 

The proposed sentence is consistent with the accused’s role in the commission of the offences. 

The agreement was forwarded to the Court of BiH.


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