On 6th December 2018, the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered an appeals judgment in the case of Jelenko Vasic et al., finding the accused Jelenko Vasic guilty of the continued criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210(4), as read with Paragraph (1) and Article 54 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The accused Jelenko Vasic was found guilty of evading to pay duties prescribed by the BiH tax legislation by submitting false data on facts of influence on determining the amount of duties, where the amount of tax evaded exceeds 200,000.00 BAM, which is why the Court sentenced him to 1 (one) year of imprisonment.
The Court also imposed an accessory punishment in the form of a fine in the amount of 15,000.00 (fifteenthousand) BAM.
The accused legal entity Zvornik Putevi a.d. Zvornik is found guilty of disposing with ill-gotten gain in the amount of 208,296.00 BAM that was, in the name and for the benefit of the legal entity, obtained by Jelenko Vasic as director-responsible person at the legal entity with unlimited powers, whereby it committed the continued criminal offense of Tax Evasion or Fraud under Article 210(4), as read with Paragraph (1) and Articles 54 and 124 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is why the Court fined the legal entity with 40,000.00 (fortythousand) BAM.
This judgment may be appealed with the third-instance panel of the Court.
