Continuation of 'Zadruga': Investigation against ten new individuals and twelve legal entities

As part of the case codenamed „Zadruga“, police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) submitted a supplement to the report on committed criminal offenses and perpetrators to the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of the Sarajevo Canton, against ten individuals and twelve legal entities, due to grounds for suspicion that the reported individuals committed the criminal offenses of ''Organized Crime'', ''Abuse of Position or Authority'', ''Money Laundering'', ''Forgery of Documents'', and ''Unauthorized Use of Personal Data''.

Namely, the reported individuals, acting as responsible persons in the reported legal entities, in the area of the Sarajevo Canton and beyond, with the aim of obtaining high-value illegal property gain, knowingly became members of an organized group, and contrary to tax legislation, withdrew large sums of money from the accounts of the reported legal entities on whose behalf they acted. In this way, the organizers and members of the group laundered money and realized illegal property gain in the total amount of 2,546,806.23 BAM, and caused damage to the budgets and extra-budgetary funds in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The aforementioned amount of laundered money is part of the total sum of laundered money amounting to 51,765,502.19 BAM, which is stated in the report on the committed criminal offense and perpetrators in the same case.