INDICTMENT FILED FOR TAX EVASION AMOUNTING TO ABOUT HALF A MILLION BAM

A prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption filed an indictment against:

-         Siniša Simikić, born in 1982 in Derventa, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia, previously convicted of financial crimes.

The charges against the defendant are that in the course of 2021, he as Deputy Director in the legal entity K-Uni Plus d.o.o. Derventa and person authorised to represent it without limitation of authority, according to the BiH Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA), submitted false information and calculations of turnover, as well as information about the VAT calculated for sold goods, raw materials, tools and machines, both in the company’s books and in tax returns, and in this way, on several occasions, evaded value added tax (VAT) prescribed by law in the total amount of BAM 477,521.99, caused damage to the budget and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the said amount and achieved unlawful property gain.

The charges against the defendant are also that he, as Deputy Director without limitations in authority in the disputed period and the only person authorised to represent the legal entity K-Uni Plus d.o.o. Derventa, avoided to pay levies prescribed in the tax legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by providing false information about facts that affected the assessment of the amount of liabilities for 2021, where the amount of the tax whose payment was avoided exceeds BAM 200,000, whereby he committed the criminal offence of Tax evasion or fraud set forth in Article 210 (4) of the Criminal Code of BiH as read with paragraph 1 thereof.

The indictment will prove the allegations from the indictment by calling 15 witnesses, one expert witness, as well as by submitting extensive evidentiary material.

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