Kemal Čaušević, the former director of the Administration for Indirect Taxation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was sentenced by the Appellate Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to five and a half years in prison, and property worth 1.7 million was confiscated.
The judgment refers to the accusation of receiving gifts and other forms of benefits.
Čaušević was acquitted of money laundering charges. It is a final judgment.
The trial of Kemal Čaušević began in July 2017, and the first-instance verdict sentencing him to nine years in prison for receiving gifts and other forms of benefits and money laundering was handed down by the Court in May 2021.
In that verdict, it is stated that Čaušević received no less than 1.7 million BAM from 2007 to February 2011, of which Sadiković gave 1,297,000 BAM, and Karić about 425,000 BAM.
Along with Čaušević, Karić and Sadiković are accused in this case. Sadiković was sentenced to two years in prison for giving a gift when importing textiles, while Karić was sentenced to one year in prison at the very beginning of the proceedings for giving a gift and other forms of benefit, according to a plea agreement concluded with the Prosecutor’s Office.
In October 2022, the Appellate Council overturned part of the verdict in which Čaušević was found guilty of money laundering and in which he was deprived of his illegally obtained property benefit, reducing his sentence from nine years to five and a half years in prison.
After the annulment of part of the verdict, Čaušević’s wife was also included in the proceedings based on legal provisions which provide that, when confiscating the property benefit obtained by a criminal act, the person to whom the property benefit was transferred is called for a search.
