An overview of the most important activities for the week from 22 December through to 26 December 2025.
INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSON FOR TAX EVASION IN THE AMOUNT OF APPROXIMATELY ONE MILLION BAM
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against Mirnes Mrkonjić*, born in 1979 in Zenica, a citizen of BiH and the legal entity "BINELA KOMERC"* d.o.o. Vitez. The accused Mrkonjić is charged with having undertaken a series of activities related to the presentation and recording of fraudulent and fictitious business operations from September 2012 to October 2015, with the intention of evading VAT. He is charged with having submitted and enabled the submission of tax (VAT) returns with such data in the amount of BAM 7,186,691.40 and by doing so enabling the aforementioned legal entity to exercise the right to deduct input VAT in the amount of BAM 1,042,705.89 i.e., the amount of damages caused to the BiH budget. The legal entity Binela Komerc d.o.o. Vitez is charged with having used unlawfully obtained property gain, which was obtained by the first accused acting in his capacity of director - responsible person. The accused persons are charged with having committed the criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210, paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code of BiH. The indictment proposes the confiscation of the unlawfully obtained property gain.
INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against Muhamed Kalkan*, born in 1999 in Visoko, a citizen of BiH. He is accused of accepting ten Syrian migrants, including four children, on 20 September of last year, pursuant to a previous agreement, in the area of the Sarajevo municipality of Ilidža, with the intention of transporting them towards the state border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia. He was detected and prevented by members of the BPU Gradiška, in the town of Laminci - Kasagići near the state border. The accused is charged with having committed the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons under Article 189, paragraph 4 in conjunction with paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of BiH, and all in conjunction with Article 26 of the same Code.
INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF TAX EVASION OR FRAUD
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued an indictment against Vernesa Omerović*, born in 1971 in Sarajevo, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Elvir Omerović*, born in 1971 in Rotterdam, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first accused is charged with having failed to properly record the actual turnover of goods in the bookkeeping records, while working as a director and person authorized for representation in "AVEEO" d.o.o. Žepče, and with having provided false data on the taxable income of the aforementioned legal entity, in the amount of BAM 35,391.49 i.e., the amount of damages to the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second accused is charged with having aided the first accused and with having undertaken activities in the name and on behalf of a legal entity for the purpose of obtaining illegal property benefits to the detriment of the BiH budget. The accused Vernesa Omerović * is charged with having committed the criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the accused Elvir Omerović* with having committed the criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210, Paragraph 1, in conjunction with Article 31 ("Accessory") of the Criminal Code of BiH.
INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against Adin Kukuljac* AKA "Bobo", born in 1998 in Sarajevo, a citizen of BiH. He is charged with having taken over a group of seven migrants, citizens of Turkey, in the Sarajevo area on 2 July this year, pursuant to a prior agreement, with the intention of transporting them to the immediate vicinity of the state border of BiH with the Republic of Croatia. He was discovered and prevented by the BiH Border Police, in the town of Galići, Posušje Municipality, near the state border. The accused is charged with having participated, together with persons known to him, in an attempt to illegally transport several foreign citizens across the state border, with the aim of obtaining unlawful property gain, thereby committing the criminal offence of Smuggling of Persons under Article 189, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code of BiH, all in conjunction with Articles 26 and 29 of the same Code.
CUSTODY MOTION FOR SUSPECTS OF SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed a motion to the Court of BiH to order custody for suspects Abdulwahad Hatem Sanad*, born in 1981 in Fallujah, a citizen of Iraq, and Amin Ahadi*, born in 2003 in Afghanistan, a citizen of Afghanistan. The suspects were deprived of liberty by police officers of the BiH Border Police on suspicion of participating in organizing and perpetrating migrant smuggling across the state border. The custody was proposed for the reasons described in Article 132, paragraph 1, item a) of the BiH Criminal Procedure Code, namely due to the risk of flight of the suspects who are foreign citizens, and due to grounded suspicion that they have committed the criminal offense of Organizing a Group or an Association for the Purpose of Perpetration of the Criminal Offenses of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants under Article 189a. paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons under Article 189, paragraph 1, all in conjunction with Article 29 of the same Code.