Speed up financial crime investigations

Acting Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, Gordana Tadić, and Head of the Department for Economic Crime, Ismet Šuškić, along with prosecutors and expert staff from this department, met with the Director of the Indirect Taxation Authority (UIO), Miro Džakula, and UIO officials directly involved in working with the Prosecutor's Office of BiH on investigations and cases in the fight against financial crime, tax evasion, and fraud.

The meeting discussed the improvement and enhancement of joint work, in order to more effectively detect, prevent, and prosecute perpetrators of criminal offenses in the area of financial crime, Patria reports.

Discussions focused on speeding up investigations and improving the quality of evidence collection in the fight against criminal offenses that cause multi-million damage to our country's budget, and thus to all citizens. Furthermore, tax, customs, and financial discipline and the rule of law in this area are among the priorities in bringing our country closer to European integration.

In the past few months, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has filed several indictments related to financial crime, in which the state has suffered large financial losses, and has requested the blocking and seizure of assets acquired through the commission of criminal offenses.