INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR CORRUPTIVE CRIMINAL OFFENCE; NEDIM KULENOVIĆ, BIH ITA EMPLOYEE, ACCUSED OF ACCEPTING GIFTS AND OTHER FORMS OF BENEFITS

The Indictment pertains to accepting an unlawful gift, and the accused was deprived of liberty after he took over the marked banknotes.

Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against:

-      Nedim Kulenović, born in 1955 in Banjaluka, employed at the Banjaluka Regional Centre of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH ITA), as the Chief of the Enforced Collection Group.

This accused person is charged with receiving one person in his office, on the official premises of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Banjaluka Regional Centre, on 09 June 2016 in Banjaluka, in his capacity of the Chief of the Enforced Collection Group. The aforementioned person came, as a company owner, to get some information about the possible reprogramming of the tax debt in the amount of approximately BAM 73,000, due to which his company’s account was blocked. 

According to the allegations in the Indictment, the accused asked the aforementioned person to bring him BAM 7,000 the next day, so that he could unblock the account of the aforementioned company.

The aforementioned company owner informed the competent judicial authorities about all this, and, the next morning, he brought the requested money, but in marked bills, to the office of the accused Kulenović, and he handed over the money to the accused there; thereafter, the accused was deprived of liberty on the spot by the police officers of the Ministry of the Interior of Republika Srpska, whereas the marked money was found with him.

The accused Nedim Kulenović is charged with the commission of the criminal offence of Accepting Gifts and Other Forms of Benefits, as referred to in Article 217 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.