INVESTIGATIONS

"Raspberry respirators": Here is what SIPA excluded from "Verlab", KCUS and FCPA

According to the information that "Avaz" has, SIPA took out three binders from "Verlab" in which all work orders, measurement reports, contract with the Federal Civil Protection Administration are

SIPA stayed in "Verlab" for eight hours. Avaz

M. Aščić

By order of the Municipal Court and the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor's Office, members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency SIPA seized documentation on respirators that Fadil Novalić (SDA) procured through Fikret Hodžić's company "Srebrena malina" from three institutions.

Those institutions are Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo (KCUS), headed by Sebija Izetbegović, the wife of Bakir Izetbegović, the president of the SDA, the "Verlab" laboratory and the Federal Civil Protection Administration (FCPA).


Sebija Izetbegović testified about the purchase of a respirators. Avaz

SIPA stayed in these three institutions for more than eight hours.

These activities were initiated after a letter from doctors that appeared in public, which spoke about the catastrophic situation at KCUS and stated that "Srebrena malina" respirators could not be used to treat COVID patients.

A few days ago, state and cantonal prosecutors were at KCUS, as well as inspectors from the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and inspectors from the Federal Inspectorate.

According to the information that "Avaz" has, SIPA took out three registers from "Verlab", in which all work orders, measurement reports, the contract between FCPA and "Verlab", as well as certificates for all respirators verified so far.

It’s the same with FCPA. Contracts with "Verlab" were revoked, as well as the original documentation related to the distribution, installation and verification processes of the ACM812A respirators.


Fadil Novalić, Fahrudin Solak and Fikret Hodžić. Avaz

As far as KCUS is concerned, SIPA, on the order of the prosecutor, seized documents on respirators that were put into operation in COVID wards, according to whose instructions, how many are in order now and which of them are not working.

These are 30 respirators, which were obtained and requested by this medical institution.

By the way, at the hearing on April 16th, the trial of Fadil Novalić and others, accused of criminal procurement of 100 respirators, for which 10.5 million KM were violated, continues at the Court of B&H in the "Respirators" case.