The Agency for Investigations and Protection SIPA BiH announced that it has temporarily suspended transactions for nine individuals and six legal entities in the total amount of 429,820 BAM and 82,289 euros.
SIPA police officers yesterday, as part of the coordinated operational action of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton codenamed “Start”, undertook measures and actions within which they checked the bank accounts of nine individuals and six legal entities.
During searches of five safes at four locations in Sarajevo, 17,100 BAM and 9,290 euros were temporarily seized, as well as a certain amount of gold jewellery and documentation that can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings.
In the continuation of the action, members of the SIPA today, during the search of two safes whose users are some of the persons in question, temporarily seized 1,000 BAM and 2,670 euros.
The aforementioned activities were undertaken due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that organized crime and money laundering, prescribed by the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the criminal offenses of abuse of position or authority, money laundering and receiving gifts and other forms of benefit, prescribed by the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, were committed.
