At the renewed trial of Fikret Hodžić and his company “Silver Malina” during the import of respirators, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina was changed today by qualifying charges as extended crimes of money laundering and abuse.
MR. GERMIN PAŠIĆ said the indictment was amended in accordance with the first instance verdict.
He read the amended indictment after the evidence was completed by accepting the presented evidence in the first instance proceedings. At the hearing, according to the defense proposal, the comparison of the first instance verdict, indictment and the minutes of the Hodžić’s hearing in the investigation.
The defense counsel Mirna Avdibegović tried to show the documents to show that Hodžić was not accused of abusing the position he was found guilty.
“If we look at the test record, we see that there is no legal qualification, nor in the factual description did not put it,” the defense counsel said.
MR. PAŠIĆ remained in paragraph that Hodžić was known for which works are charged.
“Any described action then the suspect is the action of the responsible person in the legal entity … with the goal of obtaining use to himself or another. These are the characteristics of the criminal offense of abuse of position, “Pašić said.
He presented a part of the indictment in which the second point stated that the accused acted in the properties described in the first point, so that was part of the first point.
The prosecutor also stated that the Court was not tied to the legal qualification in the adoption of the verdict.
The defense counsel Avdibegović said that the argument made by the prosecutor appreciated the Constitutional Court of BiH and did not accept it. She said the defense does not dispute the opportunity to retrain deeds, but there must be the possibility of being predicted.
The accused Hodžić called on the prosecutor to expel from the indictment part for which he was finally acquitted and the other accused.
“He wouldn’t have anything to leave,” Hodzic said.
The prosecutor finally read the amended indictment and “Silver Malin” charges that they committed the works with the former Prime Minister of the Federal Novilić and the former director of the Federal Civil Protection Administration Fahrudin Solakom.
The trial of Hodžić was renovated before the Appellate Council after the Constitutional Court revoked the verdict sentenced to five years in prison for abuses when procuring the respirator 2020. years.
The same judgment, Novalić was sentenced to four, and Solak for six years in prison, while the former Federal Minister of Finance Jelka Milicevic was acquitted for unscrupulous work in the service.
The Defense asked for time to declare the amendments to the indictment, and the next hearing was scheduled for 18. February, the detector reports.
