News in English     | 12.04.2021. 13:19 |

Searches underway within international investigation on financial crime

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, April 12 (FENA) - The Prosecutor's Office of BiH is conducting activities in a joint operation with partner institutions of Austria and Germany.

This is an extensive international investigation of financial crime. Facilities and premises of a former high-ranking official in the banking sector are being searched in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH, together with the State Investigation and Protection Agency SIPA, is conducting coordinated activities and searches at two locations in Sarajevo.

The searches are carried out within the framework of international legal assistance and cooperation activities, with the institutions of Austria and Germany. At the same time, an operation was launched in these two countries as well.

The investigation concerns suspicions of financial crime and money laundering, in relation to the allocation of certain financial remittances and payments totaling about half a million euros.

In the territory of BiH, the suspect is a former high-ranking official from the banking sector, and activities are underway to locate him, deprive him of liberty and interrogate him as part of the investigation.

The Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH is on the ground where he coordinates the activities of police officers who are conducting searches, and the Prosecutor's Office of BiH is in contact and coordination with colleagues in Germany and Austria.

"In the interest of the investigation, at this time, we cannot provide any more details," it is said in the statement from the Prosecutor's Office of BiH.

(FENA) S. R.

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