Indictment for Tax Evasion

(Patria) - Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has filed an indictment against Miroslav Crnčević, born in 1968 in Glamoč, a citizen of BiH.

The accused is charged with, in order to obtain illegal property gain, during the period from 2008 to August 19, 2011, continuously engaging in the organization of fictitious trade chains of legal entities to enable legal entities to evade VAT in large amounts, for which the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina was damaged and harm was caused to the state and citizens.

As stated in the indictment, acting simultaneously for his own benefit, by receiving monetary compensation for obtaining fictitious documents for several legal entities, and also on behalf of several VAT evading legal entities that committed criminal offenses prescribed by the law of BiH, the accused enabled the aforementioned persons to avoid paying duties prescribed by the tax legislation of BiH by not providing the required data or by providing false data about their acquired taxable income.

In the aforementioned manner, tax evasions in larger amounts were committed by several legal entities-companies, and the accused, in return, obtained illegal property gain for himself.

The accused is charged with committing the criminal offense of tax evasion or fraud from Article 210, Paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code of BiH, in conjunction with Paragraph 1, all in conjunction with Articles 31 and 54 of the same Law. The indictment has been forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.