SARAJEVO, APRIL 17 (ONASA) – Acting prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Sarajevo filed an indictment against Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, Elmedin Karišik, Seid Hadžibajrić, Alma Destanović, Fahrudin Novalija and the company “Plaza Group” for the most serious corruption crimes prescribed by the laws of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sarajevo Canton , it was announced from the KS Prosecutor’s Office.
Ibrahim Hadžibajrić was indicted for the criminal offenses of organized crime in connection with the criminal offenses of abuse of position or authority, receiving gifts and other forms of benefits, money laundering, falsifying official documents, preventing proof and providing false information about assets and income under the Act on Reporting and Procedure verification of data on the assets of public office holders in Sarajevo Canton.
Elmedin Karišik is accused of having committed the criminal offense of organized crime in connection with the criminal offense of giving a gift and other forms of benefit, money laundering, giving a reward or other form of benefit for influence peddling, giving a false statement and abuse of authority in business operations.
Seid Hadžibajrić is charged with the criminal offense of organized crime in connection with the criminal offenses of money laundering and receiving a reward or other form of benefit for influence peddling.
Alma Destanović was indicted for the criminal offense of organized crime in connection with the criminal offenses of abuse of position or authority and money laundering.
Fahrudin Novalija is accused of having committed the criminal offense of giving gifts and other forms of benefits.
The company “Plaza Group” Sarajevo is accused of having committed the criminal offense of abuse of authority in business operations
Ibrahim Hadžibajrić is accused of several criminal acts during the mandate of the mayor of the Municipality of Stari Grad Sarajevo, and Alma Destanović is charged with criminal acts committed as the secretary of the administration of the Municipality of Stari Grad Sarajevo. Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Elmedin Karišik are accused of organizing a criminal group that committed a series of crimes from 2019 to 2023 related to abuses and illegal rental of real estate owned by the Municipality of Stari Grad Sarajevo.
By exceeding their official authority, Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Alma Destanovć bypassed the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Stari Grad to make decisions on the management of the municipality’s assets in order to allocate them to the companies “Parking Team”, “EuroPark” and “Šemrani”, in which Elmedin Karišik appointed certain persons as directors. , and in reality, he and Seid Hadžibajrić managed all the business and, together with Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, shared the money that these companies made from publishing.
In addition, the indictment accuses Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Seid Hadžibajrić of having received a bribe from Elmedin Karišik for the transfer of the ownership of the residential building in Goruša Street in the municipality of Centar, which Karišik would transfer through a related company to Ibrahim Hadžibajrić upon his retirement. In return, Hadžibajrić issued a number of illegal decisions in favor of Elmedin Karišik and the company “Plaza Group” in the form of granting space for billboards, construction permits, urban planning consents and a number of other decisions from the domain of the municipal mayor. Also, Ibrahim Hadžibajrić is accused of not reporting several hundred thousand BAM owned by him and his family members in current, foreign currency and term accounts in BH commercial banks to the Office for Combating Corruption of the Canton of Sarajevo Sarajevo.
In the part of the investigation that related to the most serious forms of election fraud, Ibrahim Hadžibajrić is accused of having used a false file with complete forged forms of the Central Election Commission of BiH in which thousands of personal data of BiH citizens who were allegedly signed forms of support for his political party for participation in the 2018 General Elections.
The indictment also charges Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Alma Destanović with illegally issuing a building permit to the legal entity “Amko komerc” and the Municipality of Stari Grad Sarajevo in Dženetica čikma Street. Fahrudin Novalija is accused of giving a bribe to Ibrahim Hadžibajrić for the illegal sale of land in Magoda Street in the Municipality of Stari Grad, which was laundered as dirty money by Seid Hadžibajrić in the name of Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, and Ibrahim Hadžibajrić bought an apartment from him in the municipality of Baška voda in the Republic of Croatia. The indictment proposed confiscation of property benefits in the amount of 1,630,000 BAM, which consists of cash, apartments, apartments, residential and commercial buildings, and extended confiscation of property benefits in the amount of 963,190 BAM, which consists of cash on accounts, fixed assets in banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a share in an investment fund and real estate.
As part of the investigation, the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton achieved international legal cooperation with EUROPOL, the Republic of France, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Turkey and UNMIK-Kosovo. The indictment proposed the hearing of 129 witnesses, eight experts and the production of several thousand pieces of material evidence. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton, the Federal Police Administration and the State Agency for Investigation and Protection provided evidence and contributed to the investigation, while official cooperation was provided by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Office for Combating Corruption of Sarajevo Canton and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbian.
In this case, more than ten court decisions were issued on measures to secure property benefits obtained through criminal acts. Several real estates, a luxury car, money in accounts and a share in an investment fund were temporarily seized and entrusted to the Federal Agency for the Management of Seized Assets, with which excellent cooperation was achieved in the financial investigation.
The special significance of the cooperation is reflected in the fact that for the first time, a temporary measure of confiscation of real estate abroad (Ibrahim Hadžibajrić’s apartment in Baška voda) was obtained by the decision of the domestic court on the basis of the Strasbourg Convention from 1990, by which the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton laid the foundation for prosecutorial and judicial practice. confiscation of property of suspects abroad.
The indictment proposed the confiscation of all items used to commit a criminal offense and the imposition of security measures prohibiting the performance of official and other duties and the prohibition of certain activities. The indictment, which was forwarded to the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo for confirmation, also proposed the extension of detention for Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, Elmedin Karišik and Seid Hadžibajrić.