{"id":27406,"date":"2014-09-10T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwcinba.kinsta.cloud\/state-damaged-for-at-least-11-million-km\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:43:20","slug":"state-damaged-for-at-least-11-million-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cin.ba\/en\/state-damaged-for-at-least-11-million-km\/","title":{"rendered":"State Damaged for at Least 11 Million KM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is at least 11 million KM short from unpaid taxes on the trade in meat and meat products from a \u0160iroki Brijeg-based Lijanovi\u0107 and other firms.<\/p>\n

The BiH Indirect Taxation Authority (UIO) have come to this conclusion after its inspectors have monitored Lijanovi\u0107 LLC and the firms connected with it. It had filed reports with the BiH Prosecutor\u2019s Office which led to a police operation and the arrest of four brothers — Jerko, Mladen, Slavo and Jozo Ivankovi\u0107-Lijanovi\u0107 \u2013 and their father Stipo-Lijan Ivankovi\u0107. Another nine persons were arrested including the FBiH Minister of Trade Milorad Bahilj.<\/p>\n

According to the UIO press statement, the reports that it had submitting with the state prosecutors in the past four years list 14 persons and six firms suspected of committing a number of criminal offences related to value added taxes.<\/p>\n

The inspectors have linked Lijanovi\u0107 LLC with the following firms from \u0160iroki Brijeg: Farmer Mesna Industrija LLC, Farmko LLC, ZD.I. Produkt LLC, a Posu\u0161je-based Laktat LLC and a Mostar-based Mi-Mo.<\/p>\n

The connection is based on the contracts for renting of butchery facilities with the equipment for production, processing of meat and meat products, as well as with the licensing contracts which Lijanovi\u0107 company has signed with the other firms named in the reports.<\/p>\n

In a 2011 report<\/a> obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo (CIN), the current FBiH minister of trade Milorad Bahilj, in the capacity of the director of Mi-Mo and Venka Ivankovi\u0107, an executive officer in Farmer Mesna Industrija and Jozo Sli\u0161kovi\u0107, an executive officer in Farmko, have committed a criminal offence of failing to pay taxes worth 2.7 million KM. All three have been arrested today.<\/p>\n

UIO inspectors allege that Bahilj and Ivankovi\u0107 were forging or destroying financial ledgers and other company documents. The inspectors tried to conduct inspections at the companies Mi-Mo and Farmer Mesna Indnustrija, but found neither the companies on their official addresses, nor any evidence that would prove that the firms were at some point there.<\/p>\n

Bahilj told the inspectors that he has been relived from the director\u2019s duties by the ruling of the Municipal Court in Mostar since 2011 and that he did not know where the company\u2019s records were. The records were supposedly transferred to Lijanovi\u0107 LLC, but the inspectors have never tracked them down. The inspectors were unable to locate the records from Venka Ivankovi\u0107\u2019s Farmer Mesna Industrija either.<\/p>\n

According to the law enforcement agencies involved in the operation, the members of the group which was arrested today have incorporated a number of straw companies that operated in same premises and facilities, with the same number of employees and held the same license.<\/p>\n

According to the inspectors\u2019 findings, Lijanovi\u0107 LLC was incorporating legal entities which were formally registered as owners or users of certain real and movable property. After a firm would run up its tax obligations, it would proceed to wind up. Then, another firm would be incorporated and the scenario would be repeated. As none of the firms had a property of their own, the UIO could not seize their property to satisfy the debt. According to UIO, such deals have been going on since 2009.<\/p>\n

According to the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) which took part in today\u2019s operation, the facilities on 17 locations in the area of \u0160iroki Brijeg, Grude and Mostar have been raided with the goal of tracking down and temporary confiscating items which might be used as evidence.<\/p>\n

Those arrested are suspected of obtaining illicit gains of more than 11.6 million KM, by evading to pay value added tax, misspending agricultural subsidies, breaching of the contract with the FBiH Buffer Stock Authority and hiding the profits from the sale of goods on the black market. SIPA press statement reads that the arrested persons tried to hide the origin of illicit gains by giving out loans and buying out incorporation shares from some legal entities and by placing cash on the accounts.<\/p>\n

At least three arrested persons were members of the legislative or executive branch in the FBIH and BIH authorities. Jerko Ivankovi\u0107-Lijanovi\u0107 is the FBiH minister of agriculture, water management and forestry, while his brother Mladen Ivankovi\u0107-Lijanovi\u0107 is a legislator with the House of Representatives of the state Parliament. Milorad Bahilj is the FBiH Minister of Trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brothers Lijanovi\u0107i and other persons arrested in today\u2019s raid are suspected of tax evasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nState Damaged for at Least 11 Million KM - CIN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State Damaged for at Least 11 Million KM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brothers Lijanovi\u0107i and other persons arrested in today\u2019s raid are suspected of tax evasion.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CIN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cinbih\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-10T12:17:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-14T16:43:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mladen_jerko_lijanovic_zaboljitak.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"678\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"458\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Centar za istra\u017eiva\u010dko novinarstvo (CIN)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CINbih\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CINbih\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Centar za istra\u017eiva\u010dko novinarstvo (CIN)\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Centar za istra\u017eiva\u010dko novinarstvo (CIN)\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/#\/schema\/person\/76812aa9e6a669fda83343bcad311c94\"},\"headline\":\"State Damaged for at Least 11 Million KM\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-10T12:17:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-14T16:43:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\"},\"wordCount\":730,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mladen_jerko_lijanovic_zaboljitak.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cin.ba\/drzava-ostecena-za-najmanje-11-miliona-maraka\/\",\"name\":\"State Damaged for at Least 11 Million KM - 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