Indictment filed against an employee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for embezzlement of 27,400 KM

The prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has filed an indictment against Leonela Magaš-Baković, born on 04/26/1981 in Sarajevo, where she resides, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, reports the BiH news agency Patria.

- The accused is charged with, while working in the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH, as an employee of the ministry, performing additional duties of cashier and payroll clerk in the Department for Financial-Material Affairs of the Sector for Financial-Material Affairs and Internal Support, within which she was responsible for monitoring cash payments, monetary receipts and expenditures in the ministry's cash desk, appropriating money entrusted to her in service in the total amount of approximately 27,400 KM, with the aim of obtaining unlawful property gain.

She is charged with, in the period from March 8 to November 2, 2015, acting in the said capacity, appropriating the said amount of money from the Ministry's cash desk, and keeping the entrusted money for herself, which was determined by internal control, thereby causing direct financial damage to the Ministry in the amount of approximately 27,400 KM.

The accused is charged with committing the criminal offense of embezzlement in office under Article 221, paragraph 2, in conjunction with paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment has been forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.