INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST NATURAL AND LEGAL ENTITIES FOR TAX EVASION OF ABOUT BAM 33,000

The accused Miroslav Rakanović (1970) and the legal entity “PERIĆ GROUP” d.o.o. Bijeljina are charged with tax evasion in the amount of BAM 33,133 KM, by which amount the BiH budget sustained damage.

A prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has filed an indictment against:

-          MIROSLAV RAKANOVIĆ, born in 1970 in Sarajevo, citizen of BiH, and

-          legal entity - limited liability company “PERIĆ GROUP” d.o.o. Bijeljina.

The accused Miroslav Rakanović is charged that he, as director and responsible person in the legal entity “PERIĆ GROUP” d.o.o. Bijeljina, in order to avoid paying VAT, acted contrary to the provisions of tax legislation in the period of March and July 2017 by failing to calculate and indicate in both the accounting records and VAT returns output VAT and thus reduced the actual amount of liabilities of the legal entity by BAM 33,133, by which amount he caused damage to the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The limited liability company “PERIĆ GROUP” d.o.o. Bijeljina is charged that it, as a legal entity, disposed with the illegally acquired property gain acquired by the accused Miroslav Rakanović.

The Accused Miroslav Rakanović is charged with having committed an extended criminal offence of Tax Evasion or Fraud in violation of Article 210 (1) of the Criminal Code of BiH, in conjunction with Article 54 thereof, and the legal entity “PERIĆ GROUP” d.o.o. Bijeljina - an extended criminal offence of Tax Evasion or Fraud in violation of Article 210 (1) in conjunction with Articles 54 and 124 of the same Code.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.