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INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST MILENKO KARALIĆ (1971)
21.03.2012. 15:12Prosecutor of Department III within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH issued an indictment against Milenko KARALIĆ, born on September 2, 1971 in Banja Luka, where he resides, BiH citizen.
The accused Milenko KARALIĆ is charged to have , during the period from June 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008 as a responsible person and the director of a company in Banja Luka, filed tax reports with false information about the taxable income with the Indirect Taxation Authority - Regional Centre Banja Luka (BiH ITA), in order to evade payment of sales tax, by way of declaring false information in the books i.e. declaring transactions with the firm from Bihać for the purchase of a bus, where the listed company was not registered as a VAT payer.
As alleged in the indictment, Milenko KARALIĆ filed a tax report with false content with the ITA BiH and was granted VAT return in the amount of 52168.00 KM, on grounds of such a report , which is contrary to the applicable legal provisions on VAT thus causing damage the budget of BiH in the amount specified.
In this manner, the accused Milenko KARALIĆ evaded payment of taxes on goods and services in the amount of 52,168.00 KM thus causing damage to the BiH Budget in the same amount.
The accused Milenko KARALIĆ is charged to have evaded payments prescribed by BiH tax legislation by providing false information on his taxable income, and as the payment obligation that was evaded exceeds 50.000 KM, by doing so he committed the criminal offense of Tax Evasion under Article 210, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of BiH.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).