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Bosnia Football Officials Sentenced
Sarajevo | 24 November 2009 |
The Federation’s secretary general Munib Usanovic and finance and marketing secretary Miodrag Kures were found guilty of evading taxes on turnover of products and services in the period from 2001 to 2006 to the total value of 157,000 euros.
Usanovic and Kures were also found guilty of embezzling some 250,000 and 42,000 euros of the Federation’s money respectively, amounts that they were ordered to repay.
The two officials were additionally banned from holding any management position for five years after serving their sentences.
Usanovic announced that he will appeal the verdict denying any wrongdoing.
“Of course that I will appeal because I am not guilty. I have not misappropriated a single pfennig,” he told the local media.
Reacting to the verdict, the president of Bosnia’s football federation Sulejman Colakovic said that “it was time for some things to change.”
“I do not want to carry the burden of past wrongdoings on my back… court rulings must be respected without exception,” Colakovic told local media.
He also announced that the verdict will be discussed during an extraordinary session of the presidency of Bosnia’s football federation which he had scheduled for Tuesday.
