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ACCUSED OF TAX EVASION ENTERS GUILTY PLEA AGREEMENT
08.12.2020. 11:00The accused Zoran Delić (1967), the director and responsible person in the legal entity DEL INVEST d.o.o. Banja Luka who had been deprived of liberty on the basis of an international arrest warrant and extradited to BiH, fully pleaded guilty to the criminal offence of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of BiH in the presence of his lawyer.
Pursuant to the agreement, the Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption proposed a one-year prison sentence for the accused, a fine of BAM 2,000 KM and the confiscation of the illegal property gain in the amount of BAM 55,854.
The accused had already paid the illegally acquired property gain to the account of the BiH budget, which was a condition of the Prosecution for conclusion of the agreement.
The envisaged penalty is proportional to the role and responsibility of the accused in the commission of the criminal offence.
By signing the agreement, the accused waives his right to a trial and the right to appeal the judgment delivered against him by the Court of BiH on the basis of the agreement.
The agreement was forwarded to the Court of BiH.
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).