Regarding the disciplinary procedure conducted by the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBH) against former employee Sanjin Sinanović, and in order to prevent selective and inaccurate placement of information by this person, we inform the public about the following:
It has been confirmed that Sinanović committed a serious breach of official duty by endangering the transport of the money consignment.
Sanjin Sinanović, while working in the CBBH, committed one of the most serious violations of official duty, which is reflected in the fact that he was not present at his workplace at the time when he was supposed to hand over the transport worth about KM 40 million for which he was authorized and obliged to undertake, and he signed the documentation related to the entire procedure of receiving the transport later, at the gas station in Sarajevo, i.e. outside the Central Bank, without seeing the value consignment at all!
During the disciplinary procedure, the employee was suspended, and after the disciplinary procedure, he was imposed a disciplinary sanction of demotion to a lower work position, having in mind the high risk of his continuing to work in such a high risk position. As can be seen from the preamble and parts of the ruling, a serious violation of official duty and the legality of the imposed suspension were confirmed, as well as the grounds and reasons for conducting disciplinary procure. This refutes all of Sinanović’s allegations about “rigged disciplinary procedure”.
Having in mind that Sinanović knew that the receipt of the shipment was planned and that he was informed about his obligations, by such behaviour he committed a serious breach of official duty. It was concluded that the Disciplinary Committee made a decision on Sinanović’s responsibility after a proper procedure and on the basis of the facts arising from the derived evidence. Finally, a sanction was pronounced for Sinanović according to the Law on Labour in BH Institutions.
In addition to the fact that the serious breach of official duty was confirmed by a sentence, the second instance court concluded that a formal mistake took place when decision was made on appeals of two conflicting parties in the procedure, that were treated and solved by separate decisions. However, this does not decrease and it does not eliminate in any way the employee’s responsibility for the committed serious offence of official duty.
In his charges, Sinanović did not dispute the decision on the termination of employment, which is subject of a separate court procedure currently underway at BH Court.
We wish to remind that earlier Sinanović had lost in the process related to the implementation of the procedure of public vacancy announcement, which he had reported as alleged corruption, and that he has never received an official status of “whistleblower” by the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption, is stated in the press release of the Central Bank of BiH.
