The Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) has banned the performing of the function of director of the Federal Police Administration (FUP), Vahidin Munjic, and other suspects in the case investigating possible abuse of position and corruption in this police agency and the FBiH Government.
The measures were requested by the Special Department of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in FBiH (POSKOK) due to reasonable suspicion that the suspects committed several criminal offenses of abuse of position and trading in influence over a longer period.
Who has been issued the ban?
Besides Munjic, acting director of FUP, the Special Department of the Court decided to ban the performing of duties for Muhamed Ohranovic, an FUP officer who closely cooperated with Munjić and the FBiH Government; Ervin Musinovic, director of the Police Academy of the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs; as well as Arijana Huseinovic Ajanovic, director of the office of federal prime minister Nermin Niksic.
The Court also banned meetings of the suspects with one another, as well as with leaders of the FBiH Government and the federal Ministry of Interior, and other state officials, as well as with the fifth suspect, Mirela Bubalo, confirmed the defense attorney of the primary suspect Munjic, Alena Begovic.
A measure was also imposed banning the approach to the official premises of FUP and the federal Ministry of Internal Affairs, i.e., the FBiH Government, for the suspect Arijana Huseinovic Ajanovic.
Munjic is suspected of photographing and forwarding to Arijana Huseinovic Ajanovic the confidential document of the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office regarding checks against Prime Minister Niksic, aware that he was thereby endangering the investigation.
Communications via Viber and Signal reveal arrangements concerning the hiring of candidates in FUP, including the delivery of test questions in which, according to the POSKOK investigation, Ervin Musinovic was also involved, as well as the advancement of already employed Muhamed Ohranovic in FUP and the extension of Vahidin Munjic’s mandate.
There were arrangements concerning the appointment of a relative of Vahidin Munjic to a position in BH Posta, with the mediation of Arijana Huseinovic-Ajanovic.
The investigation began this summer
The investigation into abuses of position in FUP and the FBiH Government began in the summer of 2025, after documentation was submitted by the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office, and was later taken over by the federal prosecutor’s department.
The correspondences on the basis of which investigations were opened originate from three mobile phones that were seized from Munjic when he was arrested in the Black Tie 2 case, which relates to the still ongoing investigation by the state prosecutor’s office into a group that cooperated with drug boss Edin Gacanin, who, according to EUROPOL, controls a large part of the European cocaine market.
Munjic was at that time among 23 people who were arrested by domestic police forces, with the help of agents of the United States (U.S.) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and EUROPOL.
The defense of the suspects rejects the accusations, stating that they are based on indications and claims, N1 writes.
