The criminal proceedings against Ranko Debevac, Osman Mehmedagić and Milisav Pijuk will be conducted by the Special Department for Corruption, Organized and Intercantonal Crime of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (POSKOK), the panel of the Criminal Department of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina decided.
With this decision, the conflict of jurisdiction between the Municipal Court in Sarajevo and the Special Department was resolved, after it was determined that, due to the nature of the criminal acts and the status of the accused, the special departments established by the Law on Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are responsible for the case.
“After the Special Department for Corruption, Organized and Intercantonal Crime of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo submitted to the Municipal Court in Sarajevo the case against the defendants Ranko Debevac, Osman Mehmedagić and Milisav Pijuk (which was conducted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the number S 1 2 K 047095 25 Ko), considering itself incompetent to act in that case, the Municipal Court in Sarajevo caused a conflict of jurisdiction which was decided by the panel of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of FBiH by decision No. 65 0 K 1201947 26 Kr of 02.02.2026.
With that decision, it was determined that the Special Department is responsible for conducting the criminal proceedings in this case in accordance with Article 25 of the Law on Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime in the Federation of BiH, bearing in mind that after the adoption and start of application of that law and the beginning of the work of the Special Department of this court, municipal and even cantonal courts in the Federation of BiH are no longer competent for criminal offenses from Chapter XXXI of the FBiH CC, if the perpetrator of these criminal offenses is an official or responsible person elected or appointed by the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, the Government of the FBiH or the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH, or the Government of the FBiH has given its prior consent in the process of their appointment”, the Supreme Court of BiH announced.
It was emphasized that the accused Ranko Debevec is charged with criminal acts that correspond to criminal acts from Chapter XXXI of the FBiH Criminal Code, and that, as is reasonably suspected, he committed the mentioned criminal acts as the President of the Court of BiH, appointed by the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH, and for which acts, in accordance with Article 25, paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of the Law on Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime in the Federation of BiH, the Special Department of the court is competent.
“And since the accused Osman Mehmedagić (count 1 of the indictment) and Milisav Pijuk (counts 5 and 6 of the indictment) are accused of acting as co-perpetrators with the accused Ranko Debevac, the panel of the Criminal Division of this court has concluded that the Special Division is competent to act in the specific criminal case,” the statement concluded. Radio Sarajevo.
