Who is prosecutor Furlan: Investigated the most powerful politicians from RS and uncovered a scandal worth 145 million KM!

Prosecutor Harij Furlan, who led an investigation in Slovenia for money laundering related to BH marketing companies whose owners were arrested yesterday in a SIPA operation codenamed „Gibraltar“, is well known to the local public, writes the BH news agency Patria.

In 2009, Furlan was an international prosecutor in the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, and after his mandate expired, he was appointed as an advisor.

On September 8, 2009, this Slovenian issued an order marked "urgent and confidential" to SIPA, requiring them to gather evidence and launch an investigation into the construction of the Banja Luka – Bosanska Gradiška highway, the building of the RS Government and RTRS, and to complete it by December of the same year.

In the order forwarded to the then assistant director of SIPA, Dragan Lukač, just one day before the end of his mandate, Furlan ordered the collection of data on all subcontractors involved in the highway construction, as well as an inspection of their financial reports and business books.

The investigation covered the then RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, Minister of Transport Nedeljko Čubrilović, Minister of Finance Aleksandar Džombić, owners of the companies "Integra" and "Integral inženjering" Slavica and Slobodan Stanković, and the director of RTRS, Dragan Davidović.

The investigation into alleged financial malversations worth 145 million KM was conducted at Furlan's request. He sent a letter to the former director of SIPA, Mirko Lujić, asking him to intensify the collection of evidence and to conclude as soon as possible the investigative actions carried out by inspectors of the Criminal Investigation Department led by Dragan Lukač.

Lujić immediately forwarded Furlan's letter to Lukač, who sent the completed report to the Prosecutor's Office of BiH on February 17.

INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED IN MAY 2013

In Slovenia, a judicial investigation was launched in May 2013 at the District Court in Ljubljana at the request of the specialized state prosecutor's office of the Republic of Slovenia, which is responsible for organized, classical and economic crime, terrorism and corruption.

- The investigation was launched against one legal entity and one natural person on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of money laundering - explained Harij Furlan, head of the Slovenian specialized state prosecutor's office at the time.