Indictment filed for tax evasion, BiH budget damaged by over half a million KM

BiH, (Patria) - Prosecutor, Head of the Economic Crime Department within the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the BiH Prosecutor's Office has filed an indictment against:  

- Legal entity JADRO d.o.o. for production, trade and services Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje,

- Marko Jurleta, born in 1985 in Gornji Vakuf, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia,

- Slađana Trivunović, born in 1983 in Kupres, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

- Legal entity SLARA d.o.o. Banja Luka, whose director and responsible person is Trivunović Slađana, and

 - Nenad Vulin, born in 1968 in Piskavica, Banja Luka, previously convicted, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment states that the legal entity Jadro d.o.o. Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje disposed of illegally acquired property benefits obtained in the name of, for the account and benefit of the legal entity by the former director and responsible person without limitations of authority, during the period from November 2009 to August 2011, in prior agreement and with the assistance of the accused Marko Jurleta, also an employee in the position of salesman in the legal entity, and with the assistance of other accused, with the intent of evading value added tax, obtained documentation of a false nature, namely fictitious invoices from alleged suppliers regarding alleged transactions, which transactions did not actually occur.

According to the indictment, the accused legal entity, for goods, raw coffee which it actually procured on the black market, certified with the legal entity's seal, forwarded to accounting, based on which the legal entity, in its official accounting records, showed, calculated and by submitting VAT returns of a false nature for the specified tax period, achieved an unfounded and illegal input tax credit in the total amount of 583,422.91 KM, by which amount the budget of BiH was damaged.

The accused are charged with committing the criminal offense of tax evasion or fraud under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of BiH.

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