Yesterday, the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton submitted a request for the extension of custody to Ibrahim Haždibajrić and Alma Destanović. The Cantonal Court accepted the proposal of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Sarajevo and extended the custody of Stari Grad Municipality Mayor Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Municipality Secretary Alma Destanović for another two months.
As part of the operation codenamed ‘Start’, under the supervision of the acting prosecutors of the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor’s Office, members of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Internal Affairs deprived Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, Elmedin Karišik, Seid Hadžibajrić and Alma Destanović of their freedom on May 9.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton charges them with criminal offenses of organized crime, abuse of position or authority, money laundering, and receiving and giving gifts.
It is suspected that from 2019 to May 2023, Ibrahim Hadžibajrić and Elmedin Karišik organized and managed a criminal group whose members were Alma Destanović, Seid Hadžibajrić and other persons.
Certain members of the group communicated with each other through the installed SKY application, in order to cover their tracks and ultimately arrange the commission of criminal acts.
They are accused of illegally leasing parking spaces in the area of the Stari Grad Municipality for at least three companies over which they had control and illegally earned hundreds of thousands of convertible marks.
Suspect Hadžibajrić is additionally charged with the illegal allocation of real estate to a person from the Stari Grad area, from whom he received a bribe in the amount of 150, 000 BAM.
Suspects are being interrogated in the premises of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton.
Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) yesterday, as part of the coordinated operational action of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton, codenamed “Start”, took measures and actions within the framework of which they checked the bank accounts of nine natural persons and six legal entities.
The action was carried out under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton.
“As part of the aforementioned activities, SIPA police officers temporarily suspended transactions for nine natural persons and six legal entities in the total amount of 429,820 convertible marks and 82,289 euros,” SIPA said.
Let us remind you that in this action, the mayor of Old Town Municipality Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, his son Seid Hadžibajrić, the secretary of the municipality Alma Destanović, entrepreneur Elmedin Karišik and others were arrested.
Also, SIPA police officers searched five safes at four locations in Sarajevo during which 17,100 convertible marks and 9,290 euros were discovered and temporarily confiscated, as well as a certain amount of gold jewelry and documentation that can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings.
In continuation of the operational activities, police officers of SIPA today, during the search of two safes used by some of the persons in question, discovered and temporarily confiscated 1,000 convertible marks and 2,670 euros.
