At the renewed trial of the former director of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ITA BiH) Kemal Causevic, accused of money laundering, the Defense expert additionally clarified the findings and opinion.
Jasminka Kalisi, an economic expert, stated that she made her findings and opinion in 2019, during the first-instance proceedings against Kemal Causevic, and presented the accused’s total income, from wages, allowances for hot meals and transportation, holiday allowances, per diems for official trips, based on the certificates she received from the institutions where he was employed.
In the period from 1996 to 2003, it was shown that Causevic received a total of 14.000 BAM in wages and benefits for hot meals and transportation, of which only 400 BAM was shown as expenses.
The finding states that Causevic received 17.300 BAM based on per diems for official trips, while he earned almost 96.000 BAM from 1999 to 2003 and 45.500 BAM from 2004 to 2007 based on his membership in committees.
The amount of 50.000 BAM that the expert stated in the report was not clear to Judge Vucinic, and she explained that it was money that the Government of the Federation of BiH (FBiH) approved to Causevic for solving the housing issue, and which was directly transferred to the account of the Canton Sarajevo (CS) Housing Fund.
”If the Government of the FBiH transferred the Fund, why do you count it as Causevic’s income?” asked judge Vucinic, to which the expert said that there was a decision that the funds were approved for him.
She stated that on December 8th, 2003, there were 104.000 German marks in the account of Kemal Causevic, which had to be transferred to euros by the end of the year, which, as an expert witness explained, Causevic did on December 25th, then 26th and 28th.
When it comes to the initial balance in the accounts of Aida Causevic, Kemal’s wife, the expert said that she received a scholarship in the amount of 600 BAM in 2001 and that before her marriage to Kemal, she had 14.400 BAM in her account.
The expert said that the apartment where the accused lives today was bought with the help of money allocated to him by the Government of FBiH in the amount of 50.000 and that a total of 56.000 was paid in 2001, that is, that Causevic paid 5.346 BAM for the first installment.
When it comes to the purchase of the office space “Shopping” on Grbavica in Sarajevo, the expert stated that this property was paid for in total of 236.632 BAM and that the money was provided by Kemal’s son who terminated the term savings agreement, Detektor reports.
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