Indictment confirmed in the case of Dragan Mikulić and Others

19.06.2007, 15:00
On 12 June 2007, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) confirmed an indictment which charges Dragan Mikulić, Mikulić Company d.o.o. Grude, Mariofil Grbešić and Jasna Karačić with Customs fraud and Tax evasion.

According to the indictment, in the period between 1 January and 31 August 2005, Dragan Mikulić, as a responsible person of Mikulić Company d.o.o. Grude, and Mariofil Grbešić and Jasna Karačić, as employees of the official forwarding company of the Mikulić Company d.o.o. Grude, submitted false custom statements to customs officials of BiH in order to avoid payment of customs and taxes.  The indictment alleges that by doing this, they presented false information which affected the determination of the amount of custom and taxes which needed to be paid.  In the above mention period, while importing light distillate oil, the Accused submitted 45 custom declarations with 45 counterfeited EUR 1 certificate on movement and 45 counterfeited certificated on quantity and quality of goods to the custom officials of BiH.

In this way, the Accused, according to the indictment, falsely presented to the customs officials of BiH that the imported goods come from State Union of Serbia and Montenegro thereby taking the advantage of custom benefits while knowing or might knowing that imported goods comes from Greece and that it does not meet the requirements set out in Free Trade Agreement.  The indictment alleges that the Accused inter alia avoided payment of customs from legal persons in the total amount of KM 94,008.01.