Having held a hearing, on 10 March 2026 the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of BiH pronounced an Appeal Judgment in the criminal case versus the accused Vasvija Vidović, finding the accused Vasvija Vidović guilty that by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment she committed the criminal offense of Tampering with Evidence under Article 236(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Court sentenced the accused to six (6) months of imprisonment, with the time she spent in custody when she was deprived of her liberty in relation to the criminal offense, from 18 December 2023 to 20 December 2023, being credited towards her sentence of imprisonment.
The accused was found guilty that on 18 December 2023, at around 6 p.m., after she entered the official premises of the State Investigation and Protection Agency as the defense counsel for the then suspect R.D., and when the suspect R.D. was allowed to communicate privately with the accused Vasvija Vidović as his defense counsel, without the presence of police officers, in a special room at the State Investigation and Protection Agency, aware of her illegal actions and wanting to do so, after R.D. took out a mobile phone from the bag he was carrying and handed it to her, the accused Vasvija Vidović, aware and knowing full well that the said mobile phone should be temporarily seized by order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it would serve as evidence in the criminal proceedings against R.D., took the phone in a manner known to her and hid it in her bag, with the aim of, by hiding the mobile phone that serves as evidence, making it significantly more difficult to prove the illegal actions in the criminal proceedings against R.D. before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
No appeal lies from this Judgment.
As a reminder, the Trial Judgment of 5 February 2025 found the accused Vasvija Vidović guilty of committing the criminal offense of Tampering with Evidence under Article 236(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for which offense she was sentenced to one (1) year in prison. Both the BiH Prosecutor's Office and the Defense appealed the Trial Judgment. The Appellate Division Panel of the Court of BiH, granting the joint appeal of the Defense, by a decision of 9 October 2025 quashed the aforementioned judgment and ordered a hearing before the Appellate Division Panel.