From early this morning, members of the State Agency for Investigation and Protection conducted searches at more than 40 locations in the area of Sarajevo, East Sarajevo and Pale, and on that occasion arrested several persons. Those persons are suspected of having committed the criminal offenses of falsifying documents and real estate transactions in the period from 2009 to the present day, which resulted in them gaining illegal financial gain. After the criminal investigation, the arrested will be handed over to the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office.
Illegal registration and illegal trading of real estate is the basis of the criminal acts for which SIPA launched the action symbolically called “Square”. By order of the CS Prosecutor’s Office, several persons were arrested. Among them lawyers, notaries and a municipal councilor.
Notary Džemaludin Mutapčić, and searches were also carried out in the office of lawyer Emir Kukić. As we learn, lawyer Bojan Veselinović was also detained. Among them is the councilor of the Party for BiH in Novi Grad, Elvis Hodžić.
“An organized group of people undertook illegal actions in order to obtain illegal property benefits by abusing their position and falsifying documents in such a way that they falsified ownership of land, sold a large number of properties that could not be sold in the area of Sarajevo Canton, in accordance with the current legal regulations, by which they obtained a large illegal financial benefit”, pointed out SIPA spokeswoman Jelena Miovčić.
Therefore, it is suspected that in 14 years the members of this organized criminal group disinherited numerous real estates and public lands.
The working principle was as follows: for certain land in public ownership, which according to legal regulations could not be traded, documentation is falsified and in this way the ownership of that land is falsified. It is suspected that within this circle of members of an organized criminal group, assistance in registering illegal ownership was obtained from lawyers and notaries. In this way, circumstances were created in which the final process seemed completely safe and legal to third parties, i.e. to customers. According to unofficial information, not all suspects are available at this time.
The brother of the chief state prosecutor, Danko Kajganić, was arrested on suspicion of committing a crime of serious theft. In addition to Kajganić, two other people are suspected of stealing a Jaguar vehicle, of which Aljoša Galić is also in custody, and the Banja Luka Police Department states that they are intensively searching for the third person.
The brother of the chief prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina is already known to the judicial authorities.
In 2014, the Supreme Court of the RS sentenced him to three years in prison for extortion, however, he did not show up for the sentence and an international warrant was issued for him, and he began serving his sentence only in 2019.
