Indictment confirmed in Tanja Kusmuk case

04.07.2025, 09:34

On 30 June 2025 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed an Indictment in the case of Tanja Kusmuk (S1 2 K 051180 25 Ko), charging the accused Tanja Kusmuk with the criminal offense of Embezzlement in Office under Article 221(2), as read with Paragraph 1, of the CC BiH, all in conjunction with Article 54 of the Code.

The accused Tanja Kusmuk is charged with having, in the period from 15 December 2020 to 19 November 2024, while performing her duties at the workpost of clerk-specialist for cash operations at the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, knowingly and with the aim of obtaining unlawful material gain, unfoundedly entered payments and deposits of cash from the treasury of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH in appropriate cash records, which did not correspond to the actual factual situation, in such a way that, through internal records, she showed non-existent payments of expenses for witnesses in certain prosecutorial cases, whereby the persons whose names she listed as witnesses were never interviewed by prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, nor was a decision on the payment of expenses ever made for them by the relevant prosecutor as the basis for such payments, or she used other different modalities, by which she obtained unlawful material gain in the amount of 17,798.15 BAM and at the same time caused damage to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, i.e. to the BiH budget.