State prosecutor Bojana Jolović first came to public attention in 2017, when, as a prosecutor at the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor’s Office, she indicted senior officials of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) – Amir Zukić, Asim Sarajlić and Mirsad Kukić – along with six other people, in the ‘Bosna’ case. They were charged with abuse of office and accepting bribes at the public utility company Elektroprivreda BiH.
Nearly a decade on, the case has yet to produce final, legally binding rulings. In the meantime, in 2020, Jolović was appointed a prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). She went on to handle cases involving individuals from the highest ranks of the judicial, security and political establishments, appearing as suspects or defendants.
She led investigations into Ranko Debevec, former President of the Court of BiH, Diana Kajmaković, a state prosecutor, and former BiH Security Ministers Dragan Mektić and Nenad Nešić.
Since 2022, she has also headed the Corruption Department at the State Prosecutor’s Office. In October 2024, her fellow prosecutors and judicial colleagues placed their trust in her by electing her as a member of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH.
Although the BiH Criminal Procedure Code requires investigations to be completed within a year at the latest, Prosecutor Jolović has failed to meet this deadline in some of the cases assigned to her.
Nearly two years have passed since Jolović told a panel of judges at the Court of BiH that Nenad Nešić had unlawfully obtained financial gain while serving as acting director of the Republika Srpska Roads public company. Yet she has still not made a final decision on whether to indict him.
International cooperation with Serbia and Montenegro will be necessary, as a large part of the assets is located in those countries. Some of the assets have already been frozen, Jolović told the Court of BiH panel in March 2025.
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH did not respond to questions from CIN journalists about why no final decision had yet been reached. It said the case was still ongoing.
Jolović declined to speak to CIN journalists because the Prosecutor’s Office had not authorised her to do so. It is not standard practice for prosecutors to give individual statements to the media, particularly in cases that are at the reporting or investigation stage, said the PO.
and after stepping down. He is suspected of laundering money and accepting bribes within the company, securing millions in illicit gains. He concealed half of the properties he owns with his wife across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro from the authorities.”]The HJPC told reporters that, under the Criminal Procedure Code, investigations are subject to the following time limits: ‘The prosecutor is required to complete an investigation within six months of the order opening it. The Chief Prosecutor may grant an extension of up to a further six months, or up to one year in cases involving more serious criminal offences.’
The HJPC added that, if the investigation remains incomplete after that period, suspects and injured parties may lodge a complaint with the Chief Prosecutor, who may set a new deadline for its completion. If the investigation is still not completed within that extended period, it is deemed to have been discontinued.
Another high-profile case handled by Prosecutor Jolović concerned Ranko Debevec, former President of the Court of BiH, and Osman Mehmedagić, former Director of the Intelligence and Security Agency of BiH.
In December 2023, she issued an order instructing the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) to arrest the two men, and indicted them in mid-2025. During proceedings before the Court of BiH, she revealed details of the destruction of 60 wiretapping orders, the burning of official documents at the private home of an employee, and Debevec’s attempts to influence the concealment of registers containing classified information while in pre-trial detention.
Debevec is charged with abuse of office, forgery of an official document, influence peddling, unlawful interception of communications and other criminal offences. Mehmedagić faces charges of abuse of office and forgery of an official document.
A few days after the indictment was issued, the case was transferred to the territorially competent Special Department of the Supreme Court of the Federation of BiH, which deals with criminal offences of corruption, organised crime and inter-cantonal crime. The trial is still under way.
In her 2024 asset declaration, Prosecutor Jolović reported owning four properties: one she had purchased and three she had inherited.
In August 2018, she bought a 61-square-metre flat in East Sarajevo for BAM 85,300. She also declared ownership of a house with an adjoining plot in Sokolac, with the house measuring 61 square metres. However, she did not disclose the actual size of the plot, which, according to land registry records, measures 352 square metres. Jolović also inherited several plots of land in the Romanija region, covering a total of around 70 dunums. She owns two cars, a Hyundai Tucson and a Citroën C3, with a combined value of more than BAM 60,000.
Find out more about her assets and career in CIN’s Property Holdings of Judges and Prosecutors database.
