Investigation Details: Nenad Nešić Suspected of Receiving 250,000 KM Bribe from Romanijaputevi, Sarajevo Fraudster Also Involved

(Patria) - Bosnia and Herzegovina Security Minister Nenad Nešić is suspected of receiving at least 250,000 KM in bribes from Mirko Pandurević, owner of the company Romanijaputevi, in October 2019, Istraga.ba reports.

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The bribe payment was agreed upon before the company Romanijaputevi won a tender from Putevi Republike Srpske, worth around two million KM.

Pandurević had previously withdrawn cash from his company through Sanjin Avdić, a fraudster from Sarajevo, who established several fictitious companies.

Mladen Lučić also participated in the withdrawal of money from Putevi RS via Romanijaputevi.

The group operated from 2019 until December of this year, when the MUP RS monitored and wiretapped the phones of all suspects, except for Minister Nenad Nešić.

Specifically, Mirko Pandurević, as the responsible person in the capacity of director of the company Romanijaputevi, contacted Sanjin Avdić from Sarajevo during 2019, intending to withdraw cash from his company through fictitious contracts with companies established by Avdić and his associates.

Thus, back then, he ordered the payment of about 98,000 KM from Romanijaputevi's account to Sanjin Avdić's transaction account, and about 87,000 marks to Esad Avdić's account.

Additionally, about 127,000 KM was paid from Romanijaputevi's account to Fehvad Begović's account.

All of the above were part of Sanjin Avdić's group.

Sanjin Avdić then withdrew this money through fictitious companies, kept ten percent for himself, and was supposed to return the rest to Mirko Pandurević.

All these transactions were carried out in February 2019. SIPA submitted a report to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 2019 due to suspicion of money laundering.

Sanjin Avdić, Istraga.ba learns, admitted to laundering money for Pandurević. However, in April of this year, the Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton arrested Avdić as part of the "Triangle" operation.

According to the Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton, businessman and TikToker Sanjin Avdić, known on social media as Fabriano Delux, had been creating fake business contracts for years, damaging numerous companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina to which he owed money for delivered goods.

The MUP of Sarajevo Canton then issued a call to business entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to contact them and provide useful information if they had cooperated or entered into a business relationship with any of the companies that Avdić is suspected of using with the intent to commit fraud.

The legal entities used by Avdić are "Atermo" Sarajevo, "ACM Connect", "Emon Company", ZANA, "OIK grupa", "Cindi Commerc", "Yahu Media", "Protect grupa", "Office Com", "Kadal", "Global Trade Cosmetics", "Vigel" and "Multico".

However, the dealings with Romanijaputevi were under the supervision of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sanjin Avdić, namely, admitted to investigators that one of his companies had a business cooperation with Romanijaputevi from Sokolac, and that he was withdrawing cash for Mirko Pandurević.

When he handed over the money to Pandurević, he told him that his company Romanijaputevi had won a tender worth over 2 million KM from the Public Company Putevi RS for the construction of a road section, due to which he had an obligation to pay then-director of Putevi RS, Nenad Nešić, about 250,000 KM for the obtained job.

In October 2019, an agreement was reached for Sanjin Avdić to issue fictitious invoices to Romanijaputevi through the companies "Adriatic International", "Kadal" and "Prios" for a total amount of 250,000 KM.

From that money, Sanjin Avdić would keep about 10 percent, and the rest of the money would be handed over to Mladen Lučić. Several months later, Avdić handed over about 130,000 KM to Mladen Lučić, a friend of Minister Nenad Nešić.

Let us recall, the MUP RS arrested Security Minister Nenad Nešić, Mirko Pandurević and Mladen Lučić this morning.