Nešić received a million marks in bribes as director of Putevi RS

(Patria) - A hearing was held at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for three suspects, Nenad Nešić, Mladen Lučić, and Milan Dakić, based on the BiH Prosecutor's Office's motion to impose one-month detention.

Nešić is the current Minister of Security of BiH, Mladen Lučić is the owner of the company Legend, and Dakić is the director of the company Putevi RS, which Nešić headed from 2016 to 2020.

The acting prosecutor, Bojana Jolović, stated in the motion for detention the criminal offenses for which Nešić, Lučić, and Dakić are suspected, and explained how money was being siphoned from Putevi RS through tenders for road maintenance and road construction companies that were awarded road maintenance contracts, which was then paid to the accounts of individuals, with fictitious invoices issued by legal entities. This money ended up with the then director of Putevi RS, Nenad Nešić.

Prosecutor Jolović pointed out that according to the testimony of suspect Mirko Pandurević, Nešić was given 250,000 KM annually, totaling one million KM over four years.

Otherwise, as the Prosecutor's Office explained in the motion for detention, money was siphoned from the public company Putevi RS, of which Nešić was then director, by Pandurević, the director of Romanijaputevi, who was awarded a road maintenance contract.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, Pandurević, which he admitted in his testimony, had to return ten percent of the agreed two million KM contract to Nešić.

Pandurević initially transferred the money to the fictitious companies of Esad and Sanjin Avdić. Then he would further take the money that was forwarded to Nešić.

The prosecutor claims, as also shown by special investigative measures of telephone surveillance, that Nešić's accomplice was Mladen Lučić, who allegedly received a bribe amounting to 185,000 KM.

The prosecutor claims that the money was received by the suspect Lučić at the Hotel Espana in Lukavica.

In addition, the prosecutor claims that Lučić and Pandurević, who now has the status of a witness, were aware of the investigation, which was also confirmed by special investigative measures in the form of their surveillance.

The Prosecutor's Office claims that they were coordinating what each of them should say to the Prosecutor's Office and that they knew which witnesses had been interviewed by SIPA.

Regarding the suspect Dakić, the current director of Putevi RS, it was also determined that he himself, through Pandurević, had been siphoning money from this public company, which was confirmed in conversations during special investigative measures conducted in November and December of this year by order of the Court of BiH.

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