The prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Gordana Tadic, was declared responsible for publishing untrue content on her Facebook profile, for which the First Instance Disciplinary Commission of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH (HJPC BiH) imposed a disciplinary measure of reducing her salary by 30 percent for a period of 12 months.
As announced by the HJPC, in a public post on the social media Facebook, Tadic, using language inappropriate for the position she performs, made, among other things, untrue statements about the content of the conversation and the reason for the meeting between the members of the HJPC and the defendant and the President of the Court of BiH.
Tadic stated that “at the meeting, HJPC members pressured the defendant, then the chief prosecutor, to transfer certain cases of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH to another prosecutor’s office, after which disciplinary proceedings against the defendant would not be initiated.”
“The said publication of the defendant was transmitted by the media in the public media space, arousing public interest and comments, in which way it called into question the authority and impartiality of the Council and the judiciary as a whole and violated the dignity of the judicial function,” the statement of the HJPC states.
For the mentioned disciplinary offense, the First Instance Disciplinary Commission imposed a disciplinary measure of salary reduction by 30 percent for a period of 12 months.
At the beginning of the proceedings in January 2023, Tadic denied responsibility for the lawsuit and stated that she felt pressure from working on the cases against the President of the State Court Ranko Debevac and Osman Mehmedagic, former director of the Intelligence-Security Agency of BiH.
There is a possibility of appealing the said decision to the Second Instance Disciplinary Commission of the HJPC of BiH.
Tadic was previously transferred from the position of the chief prosecutor to the position of the prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH due to disciplinary violations.
Due to the undermining of democratic processes in the Western Balkans, the United States (U.S.) imposed sanctions on Tadic. She was sanctioned for being “responsible or accomplice, directly or indirectly, for participating in actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the Western Balkans.”, Detektor reports.
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