On 22 April 2026 the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of BiH delivered and pronounced an Appeals Judgment in the case of Ivan Antunović et al., finding the accused Ivan Antunović guilty that, by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment, he committed the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) CC BiH as read Article 54 of the Code.

The Court sentenced the accused Ivan Antunović to 3 years of imprisonment, while taking as already established the prison sentence of 14 years, imposed on the accused by the final Judgment of this Court, No. S1 2 K 032139 20 K of 14 May 2024, so that, pursuant to Article 53(1)b) CC BiH, it ultimately imposed on the accused a compound sentence of fifteen (15) years of imprisonment, to which the time he spent in pre-trial custody shall be credited.

Also, the accused legal entity “JOP Invest” d.o.o. Stolac is found liable for committing the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) CC BiH as read Article 54 of the Code, in conjunction with Article 124c) CC BiH.

The Court fined the accused legal entity with 2,500,000.00 BAM (two million five hundred thousand convertible marks), which the accused legal entity must pay within 3 (three) months of the day when the Judgment becomes final, under the threat of enforcement.

At the same time, the ill-gotten gain in the amount of 547,998.21 BAM shall be confiscated from the accused legal entity “Jop invest“ d.o.o. Stolac, which it must pay towards the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Finally, in relation to Sections 2 and 3 of the operative part of the Judgment, pursuant to Article 284c) CPC BiH, the accused Ivan Antunović is acquitted of the charges that he committed the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) CC BiH as read Article 54 of the Code.

The accused was found guilty, and the legal entity liable, for having, in the period from 1 January 2016 to 7 January 2020, in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, disposed of cash in the amount of no less than 547,998.21 BAM, which the principal accused knew was obtained by committing the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195 CC BiH, with the intention of introducing it into the financial system with the aim of concealing its nature, source and origin, in such a way that he successively deposited the obtained money in cash into his own transaction account, and, on the basis of fictitious loan agreements concluded with the legal entity "JOP Invest" d.o.o. Stolac, transferred the money to his transaction account, while transferring part of it to the transaction account of this legal entity by handing over the cash to his wife J.A., to the procurator of "JOP Invest" d.o.o. Stolac, and to the employees-accountants at this legal entity M.P. and M.B., who, according to his instructions, deposited the cash into their own accounts, and then, based on fictitious loan agreements concluded with the legal entity "JOP Invest" d.o.o. Stolac, transferred it to the transaction account of this legal entity.