Chief prosecutor - Biography

MILANKO KAJGANIĆ - ACTING CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - BIOGRAPHY
(Appointed Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina by a decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina dated 6 March 2014; the decision was published in the “Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina” No. 23/14 of 25 March 2014;
He was appointed Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina dated 16 October 2019; the Decision was published in the “Official Gazette of BiH” no. 79/19 of 3 December 2019; High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH has, at its session on 20 October appointed the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, Milanko Kajganić, as the Acting Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the decision was published in the “Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina” No. 75/22 of 11 November 2022)

BIOGRAPHY

Mr Kajganić was born in Doboj on 16 November 1975. He completed the Secondary School of Internal Affairs in Banja Luka in 1994 and graduated from the Higher School of Internal Affairs in Banja Luka in 1998. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka in 2005 and passed his bar exam in 2008.

In the period between 16 June 1994 and 31 December 2006, he worked in the Republika Srpska (RS) Ministry of Interior performing different duties - those of a police officer, squad commander, inspector in the Department Combating Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Drugs and, in the end, those of an Internal Control Inspector.

In the period between 1 January 2007 and 15 March 2014 he was employed with the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Banja Luka.

By a decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH dated 6 March 2014, he was appointed Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and started working on 15 March 2014.

He is an OSCE consultant in the field of criminal law and, as a trainer, he took part in several seminars organised and supported by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Association of Judges of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a member of the negotiating team of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Agreement between EUROJUST and Bosnia and Herzegovina and speaks English.

He was appointed Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina dated 16 October 2019. The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH has, at its session on 20 October appointed the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, Milanko Kajganić, as the Acting Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 20 October 2022, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH appointed Mr. Kajganić as the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH.