Reaction to the post of May 1, 2020 entitled “Affairs of the Kisic Family”

Without taking into account the preliminary investigation which started back in 2013, the investigation lasted for 5 years and 25 days. On June 11, 2019, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted the appeal and ascertained that my rights had been violated in the investigation procedure, as part of which I was taken in for questioning, and this is the arrest referred to in the article. I was taken in to give a statement because I, allegedly, failed to answer subpoenas by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The truth is I was never served a subpoena for giving a statement.

The article cites statements by Mr. Dzevad Nekic, now head of the Audit Office of Institutions in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and it is inaccurately stated: "Former state auditor who worked on the Muhlbauer case in Bosnia said for BIRN that the auditors secured sufficient evidence and turned it over to the prosecutor." Mr. Dzevad Nekic was never an auditor in the Agency for Document Identification, Records and Data Exchange of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was the deputy of the head of the Audit Office for Institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a position appointed by the parliament, and it is clear that such appointments need to be politically approved. I would like to point out that the 2012 report of the auditing team that audited procurements mentioned in the article was a positive one, while the 2013 report expressed reservations toward the opinion (not a negative opinion, but reservations, which is different than the 2012 report). Quite contrary to the rules of professional and independent performance of duty, Mr. Nekic acted in violation of the auditing law in the case he commented on in the said article and there are documents that support...