text: Bosnian Ex-Minister Ahmetovic Confirms Buying Way out of Jail | infoBalkans.com
  Published by Balkan Insight on Thu, 01/27/2022 - 16:51
  "I borrowed the money and a part was given to me by my three sisters in Sweden and America," he said. "I was lucky … I had someone to borrow the money from. I am not a criminal, so I didn't have the money. I have invested my earnings in buying a house for my family after deportation from Srebrenica. All my doings can be checked," Ahmetovic told BIRN.
  The Appeals Chamber ordered Bektic to return the unlawfully acquired amount of 4,014 marks. Ahmetovic was also sentenced to six months' jail in the first instance.
  The Appeals Chamber determined that Ahmetovic had signed four service contracts with Bektic ibetween January and November 2012 and Bektic did not perform the work specified in the contracts, but had in spite of that remained the minister's driver.
  Ahmetovic says he hoped the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina would "recognize justice" in the case, saying he had done the right thing..
  "As for the things I was sentenced for, I would do the same again, because I don't consider it a criminal offence to...