On 15 September 2023, the Court confirmed an indictment filed by the BiH Prosecutor’s office in the case of Nedim Uzunović et al. ( S1 2 K 031467 23 Ko) charging the accused Nedim Uzunović, Emin Hadžiomerović, Jasmin Uzunović, Sead Uzunović, Nadija Ćukle, Munir Ćukle, Alma Turajlić, Aziz Šukalo, Vedad Tuzović, Bogdan Joković, Anel Vrtić, and the legal entities Serreta investing d.o.o. Sarajevo, Libero 5 d.o.o. Konjic, Turist Best d.d. Konjic and Emko Građenje d.o.o. Rogoznica, that by the acts described in the indictment, the committed the following:

• the accused Nedim Uzunović, the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) in connection with (1) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), in connection with the criminal offenses of Abuse of Office or Official Authority under Article 383(1) and (2) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC FBiH), Concluding a Prejudicial Contract under Article 252(2) in connection with (1) of the CC FBiH and Money Laundering under Article 209(3) in connection with Paragraphs (1) and (2) of the CC BiH;

• the accused Emin Hadžiomerović, Jasmina Uzunović, Sead Uzunović, Nadija Ćukle, Alma Turajlić and Aziz Šukalo, the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(1) and (2) of the CC in connection with the criminal offenses of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) in connection with Paragraph (1) of the CC BiH, all as read with Article 31 of the CC BiH;

• the accused Munir Ćukle, Vedad Tuzović, Bogdan Joković and Anel Vrtić, the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(1) and (2) of the CC BiH, in connection with the criminal offenses of Money Laundering under Article 209(2) in connection with Paragrpah (1), all as read with Article 31 of the CC BiH;

• the accused legal entities Serreta investing d.o.o. Sarajevo, Libero 5 d.o.o. Konjic, and Turist Best d.d. Konjic, the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(1) and (2) of the CC BiH in connection with the criminal offenses of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) in conjunction with Paragraph 1, all as read with Article 124(1) c) CC BiH, and

• the accused legal entity Emko Građenje d.o.o. Rogoznica, Republika Hrvatska, the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(1) and (2) of the CC BiH in connection with the criminal offenses of Money Laundering under Article 209(2) in conjunction with Paragraph 1, all as read with Article 124(1) c) CC BiH.

The accused have been charged that, as members of a mutually connected and organized group of people, which had been organized by Nedim Uzunović with the aim that members of the group by their mutual connections and arrangements with other persons and individually organize, prepare and commit offenses, whose mutually connected actions and consequences, have the characterizes of the criminal offenses provided for in the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by which the members of the group will obtain joint or individual ill-gotten gain in money, pecuniary property or other forms of benefit, which group was knowingly and willingly joined by Emin Hadžiomerović, Sead Uzunović, Jasmina Uzunović, Nadija Ćukle, Munir Ćukle, Alma Turajlić, Aziz Šukalo, Vedad Tuzović, Bogdan Joković, Anel Vrtić and the legal entities Serreta investing d.o.o. Sarajevo, Libero 5 d.c .o. Konjic, Turist Best d.d. Konjic and Emko Građenje d.o.o. Rogoznica. For the purpose of obtaining ill-gotten gain, during the period  not less than between 2005 and 2016, Nedim Uzunović, in the capacity of the Director of Representative Office of the Bosnalijek d.d. Company in Moscow, after establishing at least two off-shore companies - Impericon Alliance Corporation at Seychelles and Serreta Investing Inc. at the British Virgin Islands, he opened bank accounts for the Impericon Alliance Corporation in Latvia, and for the Serreta Investing Inc. at Cyprus, which accounts were operated by Nedim Uzunović in contravention of the interests of the legal entity Bosnalijek d.d. Sarajevo, by concluding contracts on alleged provision of marketing and consulting services, and paid for those services through other companies from the accounts of the Bosnalijek d.d. Company Sarajevo despite being aware that the services paid were not executed by the off-shore companies. Thus, with the aim to conceal the nature, source and origin of money which, as he knew, originated through the commission of criminal offenses, the accused Nedim Uzunović as the genuine owner of the foregoing off-shore companies and simultaneously the Director of the Representative Office of the Bosnalijek d.d. Company in Moscow, transferred the money from the accounts of the off-shore companies to his own accounts and the accounts of members of the organized group, including the accounts of the accused legal entities, having thus caused damage to the injured legal entity Bosnalijek d.d. Company Sarajevo in the amount of 10,849,609.43 BAM, which is the amount of the ill-gotten gain of the accused, with which they disposed and which they used for business operations, purchase of movable and immovable property in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, by placing the money originating, according to their knowledge, from the commission of the criminal offenses, into legal financial flows.

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