Who did the former Indirect Taxation Authority director accuse: Čaušević acted on Dodik's and SDA leadership's orders!?

Kemal Čaušević, former director of the Indirect Taxation Authority of BiH, who was arrested three months ago in the SIPA operation codenamed "Pandora", has been released under restrictive measures.

As the BiH Prosecutor's Office did not request an extension of his detention in the meantime, the BiH Court made this decision at today's hearing held at the proposal of the BiH Prosecutor's Office. Although Čaušević's detention expires on September 18, he was released six days earlier.

Otherwise, as Patria unofficially learns, Čaušević, as his lawyer Asim Crnalić had previously announced, stated numerous names of high-ranking political officials directly involved in everything that was done in and around the ITA BiH in his first statement.

Thus, according to Patria's unofficial information, Čaušević, among others (and the list is long), in his statement named several people from the very top of SDA, including the party's general secretary Amir Zukić as one of the key players, and the president of the ITA BiH Management Board and current Minister of Finance Nikola Špirić, who acted on the orders of his boss Milorad Dodik. These were precisely the reasons why the Prosecutor's Office decided not to seek an extension of detention and to release him early.

The criminal acts attributed to Čaušević, according to our sources close to the BiH Prosecutor's Office, have a "thick" political background behind which lies a tacit agreement between SDA and Dodik, and that Čaušević is just a small link in a well-organized and established criminal chain.

The state has been defrauded for years through the ITA BiH, and investigative bodies have not paid much attention to this fact, precisely because powerful political figures were the brains behind all operations, and continuously exerted pressure on the entire leadership of the ITA BiH.
Because, as Patria's sources continue, those who have legitimacy are responsible for creating personnel policy within institutions, and that is the political parties in power, which Čaušević spoke about in his statement. Therefore, his statement given during his arrest should not be surprising when he said on camera: "This is the happiest moment of my life!"

On the other hand, Nikola Špirić's statement that Čaušević's arrest was "a real fight against crime and corruption" was extremely hypocritical, given that he was one of his key mentors.

However, as our sources from the BiH Prosecutor's Office warn, the investigation will not bypass the current director of the ITA BiH, Miro Džakula, for whom insiders claim that since Čaušević's arrest and his swift appointment to this position, he has been living in considerable fear, should the whole affair unravel completely.

And let's recall at the end the statement of Čaušević's lawyer, Asim Crnalić, given when his client was arrested:

- The trial of the former director of the Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA) of BiH, Kemal Čaušević, will be one of the most interesting in the history of this country, primarily because Čaušević is expected to speak about his relationships with numerous prominent politicians in BiH, said Čaušević.

According to Patria's sources close to Čaušević, given all the names that the former director of the ITA BiH mentioned in his statement, one of BiH's best lawyers, Crnalić, has allegedly already begun to hesitate whether to remain his lawyer, or perhaps take on one of those accused.

Čaušević returns passport. Cvjetinović posts bail of 100,000 KM

Deciding on the proposal of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina to lift the detention and impose restrictive measures on the suspects Kemal Čaušević and Zdravko Cvjetinović, and bail for the suspect Zdravko Cvjetinović, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on September 12, 2014, issued a decision by which the detention of the suspects Kemal Čaušević and Zdravko Cvjetinović was lifted and the following restrictive measures were imposed:

travel ban (with temporary confiscation of travel documents and prohibition of issuing new travel documents, as well as prohibition of using identity cards to cross the state border of Bosnia and Herzegovina); prohibition of meeting and approaching within 100 meters of co-suspects; obligation to report to a state authority every Monday.

In addition, the Court imposed a bail of 100,000.00 KM on the suspect Zdravko Cvjetinović. The imposed restrictive measures may last as long as there is a need or until a different decision by the Court, and the justification will be reviewed every two months. If the suspects violate the imposed restrictive measures, they may be ordered into detention. The suspects will be released after they submit their valid travel documents to the Court, and after the suspect Cvjetinović pays the amount of 100,000.00 KM as bail.