On 5 February 2025 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced a Trial Judgment in the criminal case against the accused Vasvija Vidović, finding the accused Vasvija Vidović guilty that by the acts described in the operative partof the Judgment she committed the criminal offense of Tampering with Evidence under Article 236(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Court sentenced the accused to one (1) year of imprisonment, credited to which will be the time she spent in pre-trial custody, from 18 December 2023 to 20 December 2023.
The accused was found guilty that on 18 December 2023, at around 6 p.m., on arriving at the official premises of the State Investigation and Protection Agency, in her capacity as defense counsel for the suspect R.D., when the uspect R.D. was allowed to have unsupervised communication with the accused Vasvija Vidović, as his defense counsel, without the presence of police officers, in a separate room of the State Investigation and Protection Agency, fully aware of her unlawful acts and wanting to commit them, after R.D. took a mobile phone out of the purse he had with him and handed it over to her, the accused Vasvija Vidović, fully aware and knowing that the mobile phone was supposed to be seized at the order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina be used as evidence during the criminal proceeding against R.D., in a manner known to her took over the phone and hid it in her purse, with the aim of, by way of hiding the mobile phone that serves as evidence, making it significantly more difficult to prove the unlawful acts in the criminal proceeding against R.D. before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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