INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST BIH INDIRECT TAXATION AUTHORITY (ITA BIH) OFFICERS FOR CORRUPTION OFFENCE

The Indictment charges six (6) customs officers with unlawful actions associated with the issuance of customs documents.

Prosecutor from the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against the following persons:

1.      Senad Gavranović, born in 1958 in Gornji Vakuf

2.      Goran Kojić, born in 1978 in Gradiška

3.      Cvijo Medić, born in 1954 in Šipovo

4.      Zoran Sredić, born in 1964 in Prijedor

5.      Stojan Gligić, born in 1973 in Gradiška

6.      Azra Kočan, born in 1977 in Ljubljana

These accused persons are charged, as official persons employed in an institution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is, as customs officers at the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Customs Office in Gradiška, with entering untrue, false and forged data in the customs documents of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereby they enabled other persons to conduct the customs clearance process during the import of goods, without subjecting the goods to the prescribed customs procedure.

These accused persons are charged with entering untrue data in the official documents and with certifying those official documents by putting their signature and official seal on such documents and then using them while in office as if they were authentic, whereby they committed the criminal offence of Forging Official Documents, as referred to in Article 226 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina will prove the allegations in the Indictment by summonsing ten (10) witnesses and expert witnesses and by submitting around two hundred (200) pieces of material evidence.