SIPA

On 24 September 2012, in a continuation of the operation under the code name of “Bos”, the State Investigation and Protection Agency’s police officials apprehended H.H. (DOB 1850), due to suspicion of having caused the damage to the budget of BH in the amount of several millions BAM, violating legal provisions while importing goods and textile from Hungary and Italy.

A sixty-two year old H.B. from Doboj, residing in Hungary, where she performed the duty of a Company Manager, is suspected of participating, as a member of an organised group, in import of textile and other goods from Hungary and Italy for which she made fake invoices through legal entities registered in Hungary and filled them with incorrect data on the value and quantity of imported goods, thus enabling the legal entities, covered by the mentioned operation, meet requirements for lower import duties, wherefore they made millions in the damage to the budget of BH.

Upon the order from the Court BH and Prosecutor’s Office BH, SIPA’s police officials seized financial and business documents and objects they found in the searches at two locations in Sarajevo and Doboj, which may be used to document the following criminal offences committed between 1996 and 2012:

- Organised Crime (Article 250, Paragraph (1) CC BH);
- Tax Evasion (Article 210, Paragraph (3) CC BH);
- Customs Fraud (Article 216, Paragraph (3) CC BH);
- Money Laundering (Article 209, Paragraph (2) CC BH);
- Creation of a Monopolistic Position in the Market (Article 253 CC FBH, Article 257 CC RS and Article 247 CC Brčko District);
- Fraud (Article 294 CC FBH).

On 25 September 2012, along with a report on the committed criminal offence, H.B. was handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office BH for further processing.