Slovenian Viaduct Officially Demands Payment of Debt

(Patria) - Two weeks after High Representative Christian Schmidt made a decision to allocate funds for the payment of debt in the Viaduct case, the Slovenian company officially submitted on Friday a formal payment order.

According to information obtained by N1, Viaduct submitted an account on Friday to which the debt should be paid according to the ruling of the arbitration court in Washington.

By making the decision to pay the mentioned debt, Schmidt stated that the amount exceeding 110 million KM would be collected from toll money intended for Republika Srpska.

The account that Viaduct submitted on Friday is opened at Bank of America. However, given the suspicion shown by the authorities in RS, stating that the account is disputed for them because, as they claim, it was opened in the Channel Islands, checks are currently being carried out on it.

Therefore, the BiH Prosecutor's Office and the Central Bank of BiH are checking the mentioned Bank of America account to determine if it might be linked to other suspicious accounts.

However, the request was signed by an authorized expert, which should eliminate the possibility of fraud as mentioned by the authorities from RS.

In addition, Bank of America is based in the USA, but it is also active in 40 countries worldwide. Accordingly, it is a respectable and one of the largest and best-known banks in the world.

After the official order was submitted, the Minister of Finance and Treasury of BiH, Srđan Amidžić (SNSD), has seven days, i.e., until Friday, to sign the decision to transfer the money to the account provided in the request.

However, given the statements and objections so far from both Amidžić and other politicians from RS, it is increasingly likely that he will not sign this request, so Schmidt stated in his decision that after seven days, his deputy in the Ministry of Finance of BiH, Muhamed Hasanović (SDP), has the right to sign.

As a reminder, after Schmidt made the decision to pay the debt, he precisely determined that it would be paid in the amount of 120 million KM, from the money taken from the account where toll funds belonging to RS were allocated.