The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a decision in the case of Damir Kovačević and others, by which the suspect Kovačević, after being deprived of his liberty, was sentenced to one month’s custody.
According to this decision, detention can last a maximum of one month, counting from the day of deprivation of liberty, i.e. until 20.8.2023. year or until a new decision of the Court, and due to the existence of fears that they will destroy, hide, change or falsify evidence and traces important for criminal proceedings, influence witnesses, accomplices or concealers and repeat the criminal act.
The suspect was ordered into custody due to the well-founded suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of receiving a reward or other form of benefit for trade in influence, in connection with the criminal offense of money laundering, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced.
Kovačević, a police officer of the Directorate for the Coordination of Police Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was arrested last week as part of the “Click” police operation. He is accused of, as an employee of DKPT BiH, finding people who applied for employment, and asking and receiving money from them, usually in the amount of several thousand KM, for alleged employment in DKPT BiH and the Institute for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (ZIKS) of BiH, while illegally enabling them to obtain questions and competition materials on several occasions.
Also, Kovačević is accused of disposing of a large amount of money, more than a million KM, as well as taking a loan of around 46,000 euros, which he did not return to the citizen of Serbia from whom he took the money.
