SIPA files report: Tax obligations amounting to approximately 4.8 million KM avoided

(Patria) - Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) have filed a report on committed criminal offenses and perpetrators with the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, against three natural persons and one legal entity, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of organized crime in connection with the criminal offenses of "Money Laundering", "Tax Evasion" and the criminal offense of "Tax and Contribution Evasion".

Namely, SIPA police officers, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Slovenia and other European Union countries, obtained data that the reported persons, during the period from 2013 to 2018, in their capacity as responsible persons in a legal entity from BiH, or as natural persons - income taxpayers, acted as members of an organized crime group by opening and managing multiple bank accounts in commercial banks in Slovenia, Austria, and Hungary, and using them to receive monetary funds from taxable income earned abroad without reporting them to the competent tax authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a total amount of approximately 48 million KM, thereby avoiding the payment of tax obligations in a total amount of approximately 4.8 million KM.