The Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo (KCUS), headed by General Director Sebija Izetbegović, wife of Bakir Izetbegović, SDA leader, gave the company "Erkona" from Sarajevo a contract for the supply of medical equipment, drugs and personal care products worth 288,144 marks, reveals "Daily avaz".

Foreign trade

The price does not include VAT, and the contract published on the Public Procurement portal was signed on April 15th and is valid until October 15th this year.

Last year, this company procured 150,000 coronavirus tests for the needs of the FB&H, under a contract with the Federal Civil Protection Administration (FCPA) and the FB&H Government. For that part of the job, they were paid 4.5 million KM. However, it was later revealed that the intermediary in the business, as an importer, was "Sono Medical", because "Erkona" did not have the necessary documentation from the B&H Medicines Agency.

It was reported in the media that this company is engaged in the import of furniture. But in the Register of Business Entities, it is stated that this company with the initial capital of 2,000 KM was established as a "company for production, services, domestic and foreign trade".

However, on the Public Procurement page, with the same data as in the Register of Business Entities (Paromlinska no. 33), it is written that the main activity of this company is "mediation in trade in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft".

Nowhere is the activity of procuring medical equipment or medicines mentioned. The director of this company is Boro Mioč, and the founder is Ertekin Kolašinac.

Sophisticated equipment

Last year, when the media revealed that this company participated in the suspicious procurement of 150,000 tests from South Korea, Mioč pointed out that this company was "registered for the sale of food and medicine control equipment, ie sophisticated equipment" and that they therefore applied to procure tests. However, officially, this business data is nowhere to be found.

It is interesting that the then director of FCPA, accused in the "Respirators" affair, Fahrudin Solak, could not even remember the name of the company that procured the tests for the Federation.

Later, Mioč explaining why he was chosen for this job, told for one Sarajevo portal that "Erkona's offer was rated as the best by KCUS, which further asked the Federal Civil Protection Administration to accept Erkona's offer." 

Solak could not remember the name of the company

Fahrudin Solak, director of FUCZ, told during the press conference which was held on April 8th last year that he does not remember from whom the tests were purchased. But a few days later, on April 15th, he stated that 150,000 tests were procured from the company "Erkona" from Sarajevo. It is interesting that SIPA and the Prosecutor's Office are still investigating the procurement of tests.