INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR CORRUPTION OFFENSE AGAINST EMPLOYEE OF DCPB BIH

The accused person is charged with illegality in respect of interceding and fraud in hiring.

Prosecutor of Department III within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against the following person:

- Lejla Dautbašić, born in 1980 in Sarajevo, BiH citizen.

The accused is charged with having, during the period from 2012 to 2015, as an employee of the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies (DCPB) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while acting in her capacity as Advisor for Analysis and Assessment, committed corruption offenses with the aim of illegal interceding in employment of certain persons.

The indictment alleges that the accused has, with the aim of acquiring unlawful property gain, made contact with the person with initials A. O., from whom she demanded cash ranging from BAM 3000 to BAM 5000, promising to use her connections and influence in DCPB BiH to intervene that officials of DCPB BiH perform an action that should not performed, or that that the aforementioned person be assessed as the best candidate for the position in the vacancy announcement and then employed in DCPB BiH as a police officer.

The aforementioned candidate has, on several occasions, paid sums ranging between BAM 1,900 and BAM 3,000 totaling the amount to BAM 10,400 which was paid into the account of the accused in a commercial bank or handed over personally to the accused.

After that, as alleged in the indictment, the accused illegally obtained several written tests used for vacancy announcements in DCPB BiH, which she handed over to the said candidate. Considering the fact that that candidate was not hired for the announced position, he requested a refund from the accused and was given back BAM 4,000 and after the initiation of the investigation another BAM 6,000 through her lawyers.

The accused is also charged with having, after she met the person with initials Đ.K and with the aim of acquiring unlawful property gain, demanded sums of BAM 5,000 and 2,000, to illegally intervene in order to enable hiring of his wife and sister-in-law in Elektroprivreda BiH, outside of regular vacancy announcement and respective procedures.

After it happened that these persons were not employed in Public Company Elektroprivreda BiH, the injured party requested a refund threatening to report everything to the police, and the accused, fearing the consequences of reporting, gave back the amount of BAM 7,000.

The accused is charged with having received benefits to use her official and influential position in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to intercede in performance of an official act  that should not be  performed and with having,  with the aim of acquiring unlawful property gain, misled another person through false representation of facts and held him in error thus leading him to do something harmful to his/her property, thereby committing the criminal offense of Illegal Interceding under Article 219 of the CC  BiH and the criminal offense of Fraud under Article 294 of the CC FBiH.

The indictment will be forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.