Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime, Corruption and Terrorism of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has issued an Indictment against a person charged with the Abuse of Authority in Economy.
The Indictment has been issued against the following person:
- M.P, born on 14 August 1953 in Čitluk Municipality where he also resides, citizen of BiH and Republic of Croatia.
The Indictment alleges that, in the period between 14 April 2000 and 31 July 2001, the suspect M.P., as a responsible person- Director in the ‘CROHERC AG” d.o.o. /Limited Liability Company/ Mostar, consciously avoided to pay taxes on the sales of goods and services and other fiscal obligations for the purpose of obtaining unlawful material gain and thus he damaged the budget of FBiH, by importing oil derivates for the “CROHERC AG” company from a Slovenian company and transporting them in trucks to known buyers in BiH, thus carrying out the sale of oil derivates of the “CROHERC AG” company in the entire territory of BiH and not calculating and paying the sales taxes and other duties which the „CROHERC AG” company was obligated to settle but providing fictitious purchase orders and declarations of foreign buyers that they buy the goods for the purpose of further sale, which exempts them from payment of sales tax and other duties.
The suspect M.P. is charged with conducting fictitious business operations and thus withholding the payment of legally prescribed amount of money pertaining to his tax liabilities and other fiscal obligations in the Federation of BiH in the amount of KM 18,661,024.00, whereby he committed the criminal offense of Abuse of Authority in Economy, as referred to in Article 259, Paragraph 2, as read with Paragraph 1, item 3 of the Criminal Code of the Federation of BiH.
The Indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.