Destroyed anti-organized crime operations, liberator of rapists and lawyer for criminals

Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragica Glušac, has in the past few years ruined several key operations that were supposed to break up some of the largest organized crime chains of the marketing mafia and livestock trade, writes the BiH news agency Patria (NAP).

The latest major oversight by prosecutor Glušac is the "Gibraltar" affair from October this year. She was the acting prosecutor in this case, and she did not even bring complete documentation to the hearing where the decision on detention for the suspects was to be made.

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Dragica Glušac was appointed as a prosecutor in the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina by decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina dated March 30, 2010. She was born in 1957. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Banja Luka in 1980.

Until 1984, she served as deputy public prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor's Office in Bosanska Krupa. From 1984 to 1995, she served as a judge in the Basic Court of Sanski Most, and from October of the same year to 1998, she worked as a judge in the Basic Court of Banja Luka. 

From 1998 to 2004, she served as a second-instance judge at the District Court of Banja Luka, and from 2004 to 2010, she worked as a lawyer in the Bar Association of Republika Srpska based in Banja Luka, because the Independent Judicial Commission had suspended her from the position of judge due to omissions in her work.

"Skela" and "Pauk" Operations

Throughout her 30-year career, Glušac has been associated with numerous scandals. 

Glušac is responsible for the failure of the "Stoka" (Livestock) operation, as reported by the media in June 2013. Branko Prodanović, nephew of high-ranking SNSD official Lazar Prodanović, and his father Vujadin were arrested, along with 56 other people (June 10, 2013), by order of the BiH Prosecutor's Office, for millions of marks worth of livestock smuggling from Serbia to BiH. The operations in which the suspects were deprived of their liberty were codenamed "Skela" and "Pauk".

However, prosecutor Dragica Glušac released them, after which torture and intimidation of witnesses in this case followed.

Samardžija Brothers Endangered German Market

Glušac is also responsible for the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina halting the investigation against brothers Goran and Zoran Samardžija, owners of the company Dunmorr Group AG, who are suspected of multi-million dollar money laundering and tax evasion.

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIN) from Sarajevo reported that the Zurich-based company Dunmorr Group AG had a network of call centers in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Bihać. The police suspect that these call centers were used to trade shares on the German stock exchange and that almost 160 employees from BiH called EU citizens daily, falsely presenting themselves in German and promising them quick enrichment through stock market investments.

In mid-2012, the Federal Police Administration, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, carried out an operation codenamed "Perač" (Washer). At that time, more than 80 employees were arrested at Dunmorr's representative offices in BiH on suspicion of organized crime, tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud. The director of the representative office, Željko Nikolić, and the Samardžija brothers avoided arrest because they were not in BiH at the time.

However, acting prosecutor Dragica Glušac, based on witness statements and the fact that Goran and Zoran Samardžija are not listed as responsible persons in the Register of Representative Offices of Foreign Entities in BiH at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, concluded that there was no evidence linking the Samardžijas to Dunmorr Group AG in BiH.

However, the Register of Business Entities in Switzerland states that Zoran Samardžija became a member of the company's Board of Directors in 2009, and at the end of 2010, his brother Goran invested more than one million Swiss francs in the company, thus becoming its majority owner.

Prosecutor Glušac suspended the investigation against the employees in the company's Marketing Sector because all of them testified that they were only representing their company, sending brochures to potential clients. From this, Glušac concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the suspicion that they had committed the criminal offense they were charged with.

Although the police obtained evidence during the investigation proving that Goran Samardžija had contacted the management of Dunmorr's representative office in BiH and had visited Sarajevo, Glušac did not take this into consideration.

Sentenced Rapist to a Suspended Sentence for the Rape of a Bosniak Woman

Glušac also shocked the public when she was a judge, imposing a suspended sentence on the rapist Boško Veselinović from the village of Kljevci near Sanski Most for the rape of Rasima Mujkanović (64), a Bosniak woman from Sanski Most. As a reason for such a decision, she cited that the rapist was a member of the Army of Republika Srpska and that the victim had moved away from the place where she was raped.

Veselinović, a reservist in the Serbian police, broke into Rasima's house at dusk with an automatic rifle while her two sons were imprisoned in the Manjača camp, and forced her into sexual intercourse at gunpoint, severely injuring her in the process. Rasima lived with severe post-war trauma in exile in France, where she died. 

The Prosecutor's Office in Sanski Most filed charges against Veselinović, and the court panel, which included Dragica Glušac (presiding judge) and jurors Mile Crnomarković and Milutin Marković, sentenced the rapist to one year in prison, suspended, on April 30, 1993.

In the trial against Veselinović, everything was clear when several witnesses bravely recounted the horrific scenes of the unfortunate woman who ran bloody to her neighbor Ajša. Even Dr. Dušan Nikolić, a gynecologist, was categorical in his findings. However, all of this, according to judge Dragica Glušac, was only enough for a suspended sentence.

She cited as mitigating circumstances for the rapist that he was a family man, had no prior convictions, was a member of the Army of Republika Srpska, and suffered from nervous disorders. As a reason for releasing Veselinović, Glušac cited a hitherto unseen reason, which was that the victim had changed her place of residence.

The media reported that Asim Mujkanović, the son of the late Rasima, filed a complaint against judge Glušac in 2002, during the "reform" of the BiH judiciary. Due to this judicial precedent from 1993, Glušac lost her position as a judge and became a lawyer.

Defended Radovan Stanković

Glušac will also be remembered as the lawyer of the notorious war criminal Radovan Stanković, who was sentenced to 20 years for war crimes in BiH. Glušac also represented other criminals as a lawyer, writes NAP. It is indicative that her picture cannot be found anywhere, from the Google search engine to the official website of the BiH Prosecutor's Office.