The dispositive portion of the confirmed indictment will be published on the Prosecutor’s Office’s website after anonymization.

This is a case in which the Acting Prosecutor, Izet Odobašić, has on 31 December 2025, before the completion of the investigation and acting contrary to legal instructions, attempted to issue an indictment because on the last day of the calendar year he had 9% of the achieved annual quota.

In order to cover up his inactivity, on 30 January 2026, he filed a criminal complaint against the Chief Prosecutor, claiming that he had committed the criminal offense of Abuse of Office or Official Authority under Article 220 of the Criminal Code of BiH, because the Chief Prosecutor had allegedly prohibited him from filing an indictment due to business and other connections with the two suspect

Upon Odobašić’s complaint and ex officio, based on the above allegations, a case was opened in the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, in which a Prosecutor of the Corruption Section issued an order on 4 March 2026 not to conduct an investigation against the Chief Prosecutor because the checks determined that there was no basis for suspicion that he had committed the reported criminal offense, i.e. it was determined that he had not prevented the indictment in the case, but had issued orders and instructions in order to conduct the proceedings as efficiently as possible.
Although a team was formed in the case and several meetings of prosecutors were held, all of whom submitted their written objections to the draft decisions, Prosecutor Odobašić ignored most of the suggestions and on 12 June 2026 he issued an indictment, which was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation. In complex cases, the deadline for confirming the indictment is 15 days, while in this case, due to Prosecutor Odobašić’s refusal to act on the lawful instructions of the Chief Prosecutor and the suggestions of his colleagues, the confirmation of the indictment itself took a full three months, i.e., from 12 June to 14 September 2026.

Namely, on 25 June 2026 the Court issued a decision returning the indictment for the first time for revision, with instructions that it would reject it if it was not revised and submitted to the court within 20 days. In the aforementioned decision, which is attached to the announcement, the Court states that the indictment in the submitted form is not suitable for examination and that the Court could not engage in merits review of the submitted evidence. Such cases have not been recorded in the practice of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH so far.
In the detailed explanation of the decision, the Court sets out, on four pages, the reasons why the indictment should be revised and amended, which are essentially identical to the instructions that the Chief Prosecutor gave to the Acting Prosecutor at the end of 2025 and which the latter refused to act on. However, now faced with the Court’s warning that the indictment would be rejected, Odobašić acted on the instructions and amended it partially and resubmitted it for confirmation on 15 July 2026.

On 29 July 2026, the Court issued a decision by which it returns the indictment for the second time, where it states: "...it was established that the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH did not fully act according to the instructions of the Court, as a result of which the indictment, even in its current form, is not eligible for examination in terms of Article 228 of the CPC BiH."

Furthermore, in the same decision, the Court, now on three pages, instructs the prosecutor how the indictment should look like and what it should contain in order to be eligible for examination at all.
During the second return of the indictment for revision, the Court gave the prosecutor a month’s time, with a warning that if he did not act according to the instructions, it would refuse to confirm it.

On 28 August 2026 Prosecutor Odobašić submitted a second amended indictment, which the Court partially confirmed on 14 September 2026, i.e., refused to confirm two counts against 4 accused persons, after which the Prosecutor knowingly missed the deadline for an appeal, which, if filed, would have possibly led to the confirmation of the two rejected counts by the 24/7 Panel of the Court of BiH.

Following this matter, a more detailed analysis of Prosecutor Odobašić’s work in previous years determined that this type of case work and decision-making in the last days of calendar years, solely for the formal fulfillment of the quota and achieving high performance ratings, is not an exception but a rule.
Thus, on 29 December 2022 Odobašić issued an indictment against Dragoje Čavić et al., and when the Court returned it for revision in January 2023, the Prosecutor withdrew the indictment against Čavić on 27 January 2023, without informing any of the superiors, and has not, to this day, made a decision regarding the aforementioned person.

Also, aware that in 2024 he did not achieve the full annual quota, on 26 December 2024 he issued an indictment against Mladen Mitrović, and after marking the case as closed, in 2024 he was given an extremely successful performance evaluation. However, after the Court returned the indictment to him for revision on 3 January 2025 due to a number of shortcomings, instead of revising it, he withdrew the indictment on 5 February 2025, without informing any of his superiors, all in order to receive the highest performance evaluation for 2024.
Due to all of the observed irregularities, on 18 August 2026, an additional disciplinary complaint was filed against Prosecutor Izet Odobašić.

Bearing in mind that Izet Odobašić caused damages to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the judiciary as a whole, by filing false criminal complaints and accusations, with the intention of covering up his own inactivity, the anonymized decisions of the Court of BiH have been published with this release to confirm the allegations made above.