The Court of B&H has fully confirmed the indictment in the "Respirators" affair, in which the accused are Fadil Novalić, Prime Minister of FB&H, Fahrudin Solak, suspended director of the Federal Civil Protection Administration (FCPA), Fikret Hodžić, owner of "Srebrna malina" and Deputy Prime Minister of FB&H Jelka Milićević, it is confirmed for "Avaz" from the Prosecutor's Office.

We remind you that on December 21st, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina returned the indictment to the Prosecutor's Office for revision in order to "fix" certain shortcomings and it was a point related to the procurement of protective equipment worth 2,900,000 KM for the needs of the fight against coronavirus in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period immediately after the declaration of the accident, which the Prosecutor's Office did and corrected deficiencies.

After several months of investigation, the Prosecutor's Office of B&H filed the indictment on December 4th, and then sent it to the Court for confirmation.

These four are accused of procuring respirators worth 10.5 million KM, and so far, the Court has had no objections.

The accused Novalić, Solak and Hodžić, as well as the legal entity “F.H. Srebrena malina“ Srebrenica, as stated by the Prosecutor's Office of B&H, is charged with having committed the criminal offenses of Association for the Perpetration of Criminal Offenses, among which are:

- Abuse of position or authority, receipt of reward or other benefit for trading in influence, money laundering, forgery or destruction of business or trade books or documents, forgery of official documents, breach of the obligation to keep trade or business books and compile financial statements and falsify or destroy them- it was pointed out by the Prosecution.

Milićević is charged with committing the criminal offense of negligent work in the service.