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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR TAX EVASION AMOUNTING TO BAM 163,000
04.03.2019. 13:40
A prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against:
- Vojkan Gajić, born in 1951 in Bijeljina
- Jovan Gajić aka ‘Joco’, born in 1974 in Bijeljina
- natural entity ‘BUK PROMET’ d.o.o. /LLC/ Bijeljina whose responsible persons are the first accused and the second accused persons.
The accused persons are charged that in early 2015, during the construction and sale of the residential-office buildings in Bijeljina, they generated taxable income amounting to BAM 962,382.34 but failed to record it in their business books and calculate and reported VAT in accordance with the tax legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the allegations from the indictment, the accused did not calculate and pay value added tax (VAT) amounting to BAM 163,605 and thus acquired unlawful material gain and inflicted damage to the budget and all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The accused are charged with having committed the criminal offence of Tax Evasion in violation of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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).
