Indictment filed in Bobar Bank case against 16 individuals, damage of 122.5 million KM

The prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption has filed an indictment in the Bobar Bank case. The indictment includes 16 individuals accused of financial crime and abuses, which caused damage of approximately 122.5 million KM to citizens, companies, and legal entities, Patria reports.

The accused are charged with, as a group of connected individuals, having gained control over the entire operations of Bobar Bank a.d. Bijeljina and enabling the granting of multi-million KM loans without adequate collateral, which were illegally awarded to related legal entities of the Bobar Group, and whose collection was not realistically possible nor was the repayment of the loans adequately secured.

In this way, they led to the financial collapse of the bank and the loss of deposits held in the bank by companies, government bodies, as well as citizens, who lost their invested funds due to the bank's collapse, reaching multi-million amounts for individual creditors.

Given that funds from health funds, power companies, municipalities, and other legal entities, as well as individual citizens, were invested in the bank, many citizens in both BiH entities, as well as in Brčko District of BiH, were directly or indirectly harmed by the bank's collapse.

The BiH Prosecutor's Office will prove the allegations of the indictment by calling approximately 60 witnesses and expert witnesses, and over 2,500 pieces of evidence have been attached to the indictment.

The investigation and indictment in the Bobar Bank case is one of the most complex financial crime investigations conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the first case where the amount of damage exceeds 100 million KM.

International arrest warrants will be requested for individuals who are included in the investigation but are not available and are located outside of BiH. The accused are charged with the criminal offenses of organized crime, abuse of official position or authority, and money laundering.

The accused are:

1. Darko Jeremić, born in 1975 in Bijeljina

2. Petar Cacanović, born in 1955 in Bijeljina

3. Ana Mirosavljević, born in 1976 in Rogatica

4. Dragan Radumilo, born in 1959 in Tuzla

5. Sonja Kurtuma, born in 1976 in Kiseljak

6. Saša Tomić, born in 1980 in Bijeljina

7. Slavica Injac, born in 1956 in Banja Luka

8. Batrić Đurišić, born in 1949 in Ivangrad

9. Zdravko Dubov, born in 1957 in Derventa

10. Igor Prodanović, born in 1974 in Bihać

11. Snežana Vujinić, born in 1961 in Banja Luka

12. Dragica Tomić, born in 1959 in Tuzla

13. Goran Ignjatović, born in 1983 in Zvornik

14. Pajo Panić, born in 1947 in Bijeljina

15. Drago Đukanović, born in 1942 in Bjeloševac

16. Jefa Bošković, born in 1955 in Zvornik

List of institutions harmed by the committed criminal offenses:

-IRB of Republika Srpska and its funds,

-Government of Republika Srpska as its founder,

-JP Željeznice FBiH (FBiH Railways Public Enterprise),

-Ministry of Finance of RS - Tax Administration Bijeljina,

-Municipality of Istočno Novo Sarajevo,

-Health Insurance Fund of Brčko District of BiH,

-Employment Service of Brčko District of BiH,

-Government of Brčko District of BiH,

-Development and Guarantee Fund of Brčko District of BiH,

-City of Bijeljina, 

-Banking Agency of RS,

-Deposit Insurance Agency of BiH, 

-AD Komunalno Trebinje (Public Utility Company Trebinje Joint Stock Company),

-BiH Railway Public Corporation,

- Central Registry of Securities Banja Luka,

- DZU Pension Reserve Fund of RS (Pension Reserve Fund of Republika Srpska),

-Elektroprivreda RS (RS Power Company),

-Elektroprivreda HZHB (HZHB Power Company),

-Fund for Professional Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Prijedor,

-Health Insurance Fund of RS,

-Guarantee Fund of RS, 

-City of Trebinje,

-HE Trebišnjica (Trebišnjica Hydroelectric Power Plant),

-HE Višegrad (Višegrad Hydroelectric Power Plant),

-Public Fund for Child Protection Bijeljina, 

-JP Autoceste FBiH (FBiH Motorways Public Enterprise),

-JP Direkcija za izgradnju i razvoj grada Bijeljina (Bijeljina City Construction and Development Directorate Public Enterprise),

-JU Dom učenika Bijeljina (Student Dormitory Bijeljina Public Institution),

-JU Studentski centar Pale (Student Center Pale Public Institution),

- JU Vode RS (Waters of RS Public Institution),

-Municipality of Bileća,

-Municipality of Rudo,

-Municipality of Derventa,

-Municipality of Kotor-Varoš,

-Pošte Srpske (Post of Srpska),

-Republički geodetski zavod i imovinsko-pravni poslovi RS (RS Republic Geodetic Administration and Property-Legal Affairs),

-TE Ugljevik (Ugljevik Thermal Power Plant), 

-PIO Fund RS - Bijeljina (Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of RS - Bijeljina),

-JU Direkcija za izgradnju grada Bijeljina (Bijeljina City Construction Directorate Public Institution),

-Indirect Taxation Authority of BiH,

-other natural and legal persons.