The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
FORMER EMPLOYEE OF BIH MFA INDICTED FOR CORRUPTION
24.12.2025. 08:56The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an indictment against Mirko Perišić* aka Rođo, born in 1959 in Rogatica, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is charged, in his capacity as an official person of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina employed at the position of a driver-security guard in the Office of the Deputy Minister in the period from 2007 to 2012, with having submitted false/ forged invoices for hotel accommodation in Banja Luka on more than 260 occasions, with the intention of obtaining unlawful material gain, and in this way he obtained unlawful material gain of at least BAM 67,544, which is the amount of damage incurred for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As an official person in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he is charged with submitting false accounts and thus deceiving persons authorized to make payment, all with the aim of acquiring unlawful property gain for himself, and in this way an unlawful payment in the amount of more than BAM 50,000.00 was made to him, whereby he committed the continued criminal offense of Fraud in Office, referred to in Article 222 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
*Note on the principle of presumption of innocence
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).
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).
