THE ACCUSED IN THE ‘BOSNALIJEK’ CASE ENTERS GUILTY PLEA AGREEMENT; PRISON SENTENCE, FINE, CONFISCATION AND RECOVERY OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME AMOUNTING TO ABOUT HALF A MILLION OF BAM PROPOSED

The accused Aziz Šukalo, born in 1958 in Foča, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, fully admitted his guilt in the presence of his lawyer and entered a guilty plea agreement with a prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By signing the guilty plea agreement, the accused fully admitted to committing the criminal offence of Organized crime in conjunction with the criminal offence of Money laundering charged against him by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH.

In accordance with the guilty plea agreement, a one-year prison sentence was proposed for the accused, as well as a secondary fine in the amount of BAM 73,000.

The illicitly acquired property benefit in the amount of BAM 460,374.38 is confiscated from the accused. The accused has already paid the amount of BAM 100,000 when concluding the agreement, and he will pay the rest within the deadline set by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused admitted that he, as a member of the company’s management and a member of an organised crime group, with an intention to conceal the real source, nature and origin of money and to illegally inject it into legal financial flows, that is, into multi-currency accounts opened in several banks, he used to receive from the accused Nedim Uzunović and natural and legal persons connected with him large amounts of money that he would dispose with and also transfer them to the accounts of persons close to him. The payments were received from accounts opened in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus and Croatia.

The proposed sentence is in accordance with the role and responsibility of the accused, as well as the scope of the criminal offence he is charged with.

With the guilty plea agreement, the accused waived his right to a trial and the right to appeal the judgment handed down by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the agreement.

The agreement was forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.