INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR TAX EVASION AMOUNTING ABOUT BAM 300,000

The indictment includes a natural person and a legal person, who are charged with evading VAT in the total amount of BAM 297,154 during 2017 and 2018.

A prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has filed an indictment against:

-      Minka Brajlović, born in 1957 in Foča, residing in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH.

-      legal entities “Brajlović” d.o.o. Sarajevo, in bankruptcy.

The accused Brajlović is charged that during the months of October and November 2017, in the capacity of a person authorised to represent the legal entity-company “Brajlović” d.o.o. Sarajevo, in order to avoid the obligation to pay value added tax (VAT), which is prescribed by tax laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina, acted contrary to the provisions of the VAT Law by providing false information on taxable amounts of turnover for October and November 2017.

In the above-described manner, the Accused obtained a benefit for the said legal entity-company and caused damage to the budget of BiH in the total amount of BAM 250,474.00.

Furthermore, the accused legal entity “Brajlović” d.o.o. Sarajevo, in bankruptcy, is charged that from October 2017 to September 2018 it illegally disposed with the amount of BAM 250,474.00, which the first accused obtained through tax evasion, as well as with the amount of BAM 46,680.00 for a 2018 tax return, making the total of BAM 297,154.00, which is the amount of illegal property gain acquired by the company and by which the budget and all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina sustained damage.

The accused Minka Brajlović is charged with having committed a prolonged criminal offence of Tax Evasion or Fraud in violation of Article 210 (4) of the CC BiH, and the accused legal entity “BRAJLOVIĆ” d.o.o. Sarajevo, in bankruptcy, an extended criminal offence of Tax Evasion or Fraud in violation of Article 210 (4) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH.