News in English     | 11.03.2020. 14:01 |

Tadić's stark remarks to MPs: New cases will be opened for high-level corruption

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, March 11 (FENA) – In stark remarks to MPs at the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chief Prosecutor Gordana Tadić announced at the thematic session that her institution will ‘most certainly’ launch cases and secure guilty verdicts for high-level corruption.

She assessed that she does not consider holding the session as ‘a good thing’ because it separated the topic of the situation in the judiciary and reports on the work of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH. She resented government officials who, as she said, did not work, but received salaries in multiple jobs and asked if there were moral responsibilities in that regard.

“What would happen if judicial institutions, police and the Intelligence and Security Agency stopped working,” Tadić asked.

She warned that the entire burden of the situation in BiH cannot be reduced only to the work of judicial institutions, reminding of the failure to implement the judgments of the Constitutional Court of BiH, which the BiH Parliamentary Assembly had to do.

She says there are 58 prosecutors in the prosecution who are willing to do their jobs independently of anyone, especially independent of representatives of the legislative and executive branches, and she said they will not be subject to any pressure.

Laughter erupted at the parliamentary hall when she said that the discussion on the situation in the judiciary could have waited because there are more urgent topics at hand such as the coronavirus epidemics. She responded to the laughter by saying that everyone earlier laughed about the migrant crisis.

“It was being said that migrants will not come to BiH. Today, that crisis should be discussed and jointly. I see your sneers but he who laughs last, laughs longest,” said the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office, saying they might face consequences because of that.

After presenting such a position, Chief Prosecutor Gordana Tadić began to talk about the reports on the work of the institutions, led by her, for 2017 and 2018, and emphasized that the norm had been achieved by reminding that prosecutors are being evaluated unlike judges of the Court of BiH.

Speaking about the War Crimes Department of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, she noted that more than 800 persons have been indicted and sentenced to more than 3,200 years in prison by the Court of BiH, which monitors the work of the Prosecutor's Office.

However, there are still a large number of cases that need to be resolved, with almost 450 cases against 4,223 persons before prosecutors, but the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, Tadić claims, is a leader in war crimes cases.

With regard to the Organized Crime, Economic Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Department, more prison sentences that amount to over to 2,000 years in total have been pronounced, and the results are achieved on a continuous basis.

She asked the MPs if they knew the meaning of "high-level corruption", reminding them that the MPs were high-level officials affected by this type of corruption, and she made it clear that there would be open cases in the area of high-level corruption in the coming period, but she also announced that convictions will be announced in these cases.

The MPs of the House of Representatives of the PA BiH made objection in regard to how the Chief Prosecutor addressed them, and the debate on the state of the judiciary is ongoing.

(FENA) L. N.

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