Indictment confirmed in Adis Prašović et al.

24.04.2025, 15:03

On 15 April 2025 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed an Indictment in the case of Adis Prašović et al., charging the accused Adis Prašović and Amer Selak with the criminal offenses of Breach of Secrecy of Proceedings under Article 237(1) CC BiH and Accepting Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 380(1) CC FBiH, and Adis Prašović also with the criminal offense of Abuse of Office or Official Authority under Article 383(3), as read with Paragraph 1 CC FBiH.

The accused Adis Prašović and Amer Selak are charged that, in the period from late 2021 to late September 2022, together, in their capacity as police officers the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), assigned to the Criminal Police Sector, and as authorized official persons who had appropriate authorization to access classified data in their work on cases of the Sarajevo Canton MUP and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, although aware of their actions, with the aim of obtaining unlawful material gain, they repeatedly demanded and received gifts in the form of money and other benefits for themselves from E.I. and A.M., whose actions are in these criminal files the subject of police processing and criminal investigation into criminal offenses under the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so as to, as police officers, in violation of the Law on Police Officers of the Sarajevo Canton, and in violation of the Law on the Protection of Classified Data of BiH, unauthorizedly disclose facts and data, which were classified INTERNAL and CONFIDENTIAL, which they obtained while proceeding in the aforementioned capacities, aware of the consequences that their disclosure could harm the investigations conducted by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and criminal proceedings before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in this way together acquired unlawful material gain in the amount of at least 18,650.00 BAM.

 

It is further alleged that the accused Adis Prašović himself, on the official premises of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Internal Affairs, although aware of his actions and the consequences that may occur, with the aim of obtaining unlawful material gain, abused his official position and exceeded the limits of his authority, in such a way that, as a police officer of the Sarajevo Canton MUP, aware and knowing that these were temporarily seized items pursuant to Orders of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the safekeeping and depositing of which was ordered on the premises of the Sarajevo Canton MUP, and by which orders he simultaneously proceeded in the same capacity in the actions of searching and temporarily seizing items, during working hours and outside of working hours, on several occasions accessed the temporarily seized items, which were secured and have the status of evidence, in such a way that, without prior knowledge and approval of the prosecutor, he opened a paper bag, secured as evidence, containing money temporarily seized from certain persons, and in this way appropriated for himself unlawful material gain in the amount of at least 55,809.75 BAM