Damir Ivetić: The Stanković mentioned in Patria's article is not my relative

(Patria) – "I am not related to the Belgrade resident Stanković as stated in Patria's article," said Damir Ivetić, SNSD candidate for the Assembly of Posavina Canton.

Patria's website published an article titled "Voters from Odžak reported identity theft, discovered they had already voted from Belgrade!"

The article states: "A relative of the Belgrade resident Stanković is Damir Ivetić, SNSD candidate for the Cantonal Assembly in Odžak. Police are investigating whether the identity theft can be linked to a driving school and Ivetić."

A family from Odžak discovered that their daughter Elma Puzić (1999) had already voted in the upcoming elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The database of the Central Election Commission of BiH states that Puzić was approved to vote from Belgrade, from the apartment of a certain Tomislav Stanković, at the address Omorika 3!, Patria reveals.

When they called the phone number from the address mentioned in the CEC, Stanković answered. He said he had nothing to do with it and that his daughter Olja knew more about it!

The case has been reported to the police in Odžak, and the Central Election Commission has also been informed.

This is not the only case in Posavina where identity theft has been observed before the General Elections in BiH. Besides Puzić, Amina Bavrk (1999) and Junuz Salkanović (1999) also discovered that they had already voted from Belgrade from the address Bele vode, Čukarica. And the returnee from Austria, Sulejman Džananović, discovered that he had voted, and from Sisak.

Puzić says that she only gave her personal information at the local driving school where she recently completed her training and passed her driving test. Bavrk and Salkanović claim that they also recently took their driving tests.

"There are many more individuals whose names have been misused in this pre-election cycle. I responsibly claim that I have no relatives in Belgrade," Ivetić said in a telephone reaction.