The Prosecutor’s Office of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (HNK) submitted to the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption, Organized and Intercantonal Crime of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (POSKOK) a case regarding the tragedy that occurred in the area of Jablanica, when 19 people were killed, confirmed Ana Rajič, the spokesperson of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton.
She stated that numerous expert reports from the mining, geodetic, geological and financial professions were carried out, data were collected from the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as other institutions and services, witnesses were heard and all suspects were questioned.
Rajič reminded that the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton included one legal entity and four natural persons due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they had committed criminal acts of abuse of position or authority in connection with the criminal act of causing general danger, polluting the environment and negligent work in the service.
The investigation includes the company “Sani”, which owns the disputed quarry above the village of Donja Jablanica, the owner of that company Dženan Honđo, and three cantonal inspectors in the Ministry of Economy of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton.
As a reminder, catastrophic floods hit the Herzegovina-Neretva and Central Bosnia cantons on the night between October 3 and 4 last year, and 19 people died in the tragedy in Jablanica – 18 in the area of Donja Jablanica and one in the village of Zlate.
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