Bosnian Prosecutor's Office proposed one-month detention for Fadil Novalić, the Prime Minister of the Federation (FBiH) entity, Fahrudin Solak, the suspended head of the FBiH Civil Protection Administration and Fikret Hodzic, the owner of Srebrena Malina company, the Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.
After the suspects in the controversial government deal involving the procurement of overpriced ventilators unfit for hospital treatment of patients, were handed over to the Prosecution by the special police, the Prosecution said they proposed to the Court that suspects be ordered a 30.day detention.
In the meantime, the Prosecution said they would continue working on the case.
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The public became interested in the case due to the fact that in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the medical equipment meant the needs of the FBiH's healthcare system was procured by an agricultural company. The value of the procurement of 100 Chinese ventilators was 10.5 million Bosnian Marks, which is over €5 million.
Earlier, members of Bosnia's special police agency SIPA conducted a search on several locations, including the premises of the FBiH Civil Protection Administration, the FBiH Public Health Institute, FBiH Government and the company “Srebrena Malina,” on the order of the Prosecutor's Office. Certain items, documents and mobile phones of several officials, including Prime Minister Novalic's mobile phone, were confiscated.
The Prosecutor's Office said that the team of prosecutors took a number of necessary actions to determine all the circumstances of this procurement from the moment they took over the case on May 4, and that intense work continues daily.
