The Prosecutor's Office of BiH issued an indictment against three persons charging them with the crimes in connection with the destruction of surplus weapons which brought an unlawful gain of around 500,000 BAM.
Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH issued an indictment against the following persons:
- Marijo ŠEGO, born in 1960 in Sarajevo,
- Šefik HASANOVIĆ aka "Šeška", born in 1966 in Novi Travnik
- Muhamed GURBETA, born in 1962 in Bugojno.
The accused are charged with having, during the period from 2007 to 2009, committed criminal offences of Negligent Performance of Duty, Abuse of Office and continued criminal offense of Counterfeiting Documents in their respective capacities of officials in the BiH Institutions i.e. Ministry of Defense - ŠEGO and HASANOVIĆ and the director of the Binas Inc. company Bugojno - GURBETA.
The crimes committed inflicted major damages to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina because of the large quantity of weapons that were shown as destroyed, although the destruction never took place, which caused a major threat to security. The indictment alleges that the accused persons generated unlawful gain in various ways and caused damages to the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the amount of approximately half a million BAM.
The aforementioned offences were committed by way of not destroying surplus weapons including grenades, mines, hand grenades, rifle grenades, detonators and other explosive devices which were designated for destruction, even though they collected funds for the destruction. Forged documents falsely depicted that the explosive devices were destroyed although they remained in the storage. This was discovered during the course of the investigation of the scene by SIPA, in June 2010 when large amount of mines and explosives that were falsely depicted as destroyed were discovered.
The indictment also alleges that they falsely depicted the destruction of mines and explosives that were later dismantled and deactivated to obtain raw materials that were later sold generating significant gain.
Furthermore, the investigation found that some mines and explosives, which were supposed to be destroyed, were remodeled and sold as new.
Investigation of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and authorized police agencies has found that this case of abuse of office relates to hundreds of thousands of rockets, mines and explosives that remained in circulation as a result of these criminal offences, thus threatening the security in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In this case the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has maintained substantial cooperation with the Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which made an analysis of the legality of the process of destruction of surplus weapons and ammunition and whose report was useful in the investigation of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH.
The Prosecutor's Office of BiH forwarded the indictment to the Court of BiH for confirmation.