The RS Special Prosecutor’s Office refused to act on criminal charges in the Bobar Bank case

Banja Luka, 03. April 2015 – Transparency International of Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) received a letter from the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bijeljina concluding that no one has been charged with criminal charges filed by the RS Banking Agency against unknown persons for abuse of office and authority in Bobar Bank proceeds even though the applications were forwarded in December 2014. .

Namely, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bijeljina informed TI BiH that they forwarded all the documentation to the RS MUP – Criminal Police Directorate – Unit for Suppression of Economic Crime, Financial Investigation and Money Laundering, but that they have not acted on it yet. We were also informed in the same letter that there are indications that this is an organized crime, and that is why the case was forwarded to the Special Prosecutor’s Office of the Republika Srpska, which by an act of March 13, 2015. “The decision of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which is responsible for organized crime and corruption, is absolutely unclear, given that the Agency’s report referred to a large number of disputed loans signed by one person and used by another, and the disappearance of almost 10 million KM from the vault of Bobar Bank. Such crimes can in no way be viewed as the work of a lonely individual, but are very obviously classified as organized crime.

This only confirmed the claims of TI BiH that in the case of Bobar Bank there is organized evasion of responsibility of competent institutions which now refuse to act on criminal charges, although the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bijeljina confirmed that there are indications of organized crime. banks. The submitted letter from the Bijeljina Prosecutor’s Office shows the repeated practice of institutions to transfer responsibility and competencies to each other, which ultimately resulted in inaction.

Transparency International BiH believes that the latest information that none of the competent investigative bodies is currently determining responsibility in the Bobar Bank case further obliges MPs and members of the Finance and Budget Committee of the RS National Assembly to question Slavica Injac, director of the RS Banking Agency. It will turn out that despite all the indications of organized crime, responsible for the collapse of Bobar Bank, no one has even tried to establish responsibility in this case.
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