The Municipal Court in Sarajevo has confirmed the indictment issued by the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton (KS) against Zoran Čegar, former head of the Uniformed Police Sector of the Federation Police Administration (FUP), for the criminal offenses of abuse of office and causing minor bodily harm.
The prosecution alleges that, in mid-January 2022, Čegar assaulted a worker in a parking lot in the Stari Grad municipality. At the time, as the head of FUP, he had parked an official vehicle alongside two colleagues, blocking another car. When the employee asked why this had happened, Čegar told him to move away and demanded his documents, stating that he would have him prosecuted.
After the worker explained that he didn’t have the documents, an argument ensued, and Čegar slapped him several times. The entire incident was captured by a surveillance camera in the parking lot and later released to the media.
Under the same indictment, he was charged with an assault that occurred seven months later, when, after a brief argument with a fellow FUP officer, he struck the officer in the head with a fist while the officer was sitting in his car, causing him minor bodily injury.
For the main trial, the prosecutor has proposed that the court hear 17 witnesses, a forensic medical expert, and present around 50 pieces of material evidence, as stated by the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor’s Office.
A case against Čegar is currently ongoing before the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, based on an indictment from September 2024, in which he is charged with document forgery.
The indictment alleges that in January 2019, Čegar submitted a forged real estate sales contract to the Land Registry Office of the Sarajevo Municipal Court, along with two additional forged documents to the property, Geodetic Affairs, and Land Registry Service in the Municipality of Ilijaš. The indictment was filed after journalists from the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIN) published a story about it.
The head of the FBiH Uniformed Police, Zoran Čegar, was accused of fraud in Croatia. Part of his property in BiH was acquired illegally. CIN reveals that based on a falsified document he took possession of other people’s property.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office official, Čegar used these documents in an attempt to register ownership of three parcels, totaling 20,450 square meters, in Nišići near Sarajevo, despite knowing that the sales contract, the notary public’s certificate, and the document authentication clause were falsified — and that they had not been issued by the notary in Loznica, Serbia, as stated on the documents.
In Croatia, two cases are being pursued against Čegar at the Municipal Court in Dubrovnik—one for fraud and the other for threats made to a journalist.
Due to these criminal proceedings, Čegar was suspended until September 2024, when he became eligible for retirement.
