Having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing and a sentencing hearing in the case of Hamdija Šarčević, on 22 November 2021 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered a judgment finding the accused Hamdija Šarčević guilty of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(4) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH) as read with the criminal offense of Deception in Getting Loans (Credits) or Other Grants under Article 268(3) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC FBiH) and Forgery of a Document under Article 373(1) CC FBiH. The Court imposed a suspended sentence of 2 years of imprisonment, while ordering that the sentence should not be executed unless the accused commits another criminal offense within 3 years of the day when the judgment becomes final.
The accused Hamdija Šarčević has been found guilty because for the purpose of obtaining ill-gotten gain in a 2010-2011 period he colluded with multiple natural and legal persons in Kiseljak, Sarajevo, Sanski Most and Istočno Sarajevo to defraud the legal entity of NLB leasing d.o.o. Sarajevo and make profit by concluding a financial leasing contract with the above leasing company by which to finance a fictitious purchase of movable items - machines, which would actually not be purchased since no such machines ever existed. In this way the legal entity of NLB leasing d.o.o. Sarajevo suffered damage in the amount of 605,447.67 KM.