Kulenović travelled, so plea hearing postponed to August 13

The plea hearing before Section II for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case of Stipe Prlić et al., scheduled for today, was cancelled because the notification about it arrived too late, reports the Patria news agency.

The Court of BiH confirmed on May 21, 2015, the indictment charging the accused Prlić and Zoran Bakula with the criminal offense of abuse of position or authority and the criminal offense of receiving gifts and other forms of benefits, and the accused Neven Kulenović with the criminal offense of giving gifts and other forms of benefits.

As we have been confirmed, Kulenović travelled, so he could not appear at the trial, and the plea hearing has been postponed to August 13.

The indictment states that the accused Prlić, as director – president of the Management Board, and Bakula, as a member of the Management Board of the Public Enterprise (PE) Hrvatske telekomunikacije d.o.o. Mostar, within the public procurement procedure for the development of an "Integrated strategy for planning and purchasing media according to target groups of PE HT d.o.o. Mostar, planning and purchasing media according to target groups of PE HT d.o.o. Mostar, and planning and purchasing media in BiH," selected the most favorable bidder by choosing the legal entity SV-RSA d.o.o. Sarajevo, owned by the accused Kulenović, as the most favorable bidder.

They did this even though the said legal entity was ranked third according to the recommendation of the public procurement commission, acting contrary to the provisions of the Law on Public Procurement of BiH and the Instructions on the Application of the Law on Public Procurement of BiH, for which actions the accused Kulenović, as owner and deputy director of the legal entity SV-RSA d.o.o. Sarajevo, gave a gift that they had previously agreed upon, namely through successive payments to Bakula's account in the amount of 386,256.86 KM and to Prlić's account in the amount of 331,513.18 KM.
 
The accused Bakula and Prlić received this gift in such a way that it was paid to them from the account of the legal entity "3 Media Limited" registered in Gibraltar, in which the accused Kulenović is the attorney-in-fact with general and special authority.