Members of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of the Interior (SC MUP) searched three locations in Sarajevo late last week as part of the "Dženan Memić" case, as ordered by the B&H Prosecutor's Office.

Order of the Court of B&H

As it was confirmed at the time by the SC Ministry of the Interior and the State Prosecutor's Office, the apartments of Muamer Budnjo, the son of businessman Alija Budnjo, and Ševal Kovačević, a traffic expert, were searched.

The Crystal Hotel in Ilidža was also searched, from which footage from 8, 9, 10 and 11 February 2016 was deleted, ie at the time when Dženan Memić was killed.

During the search of Budnjo's apartment in the residential and business building "Bosmal", the police seized the documentation, as well as the documentation from Kovačević's apartment in Nova Otoka and the "Crystal" Hotel.

As an expert in the field of traffic, Kovačević worked on one of the findings in the "Dženan Memić" case and claimed that it was a traffic accident. The search warrant was issued by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He knew that the recordings were deleted

We learn that all seized items will be sent for expertise. But, crucially, the cell phone was confiscated from Muamer Budnjo. He had direct control over the work of the hotel staff and as a responsible person he knew how to delete the recordings. According to Avaz, the Prosecution believes that Budnjo knew that the footage from the hotel had been deleted, which was confirmed by witnesses in their statements. He, as the responsible person, did not report it, although he is stated as the responsible person in the Ilidža hotel group.

Computer, CDs, several USBs and numerous documents were also excluded from his apartment. The same goes for Kovačević. The search warrant issued by Judge Tatjana Kosović, as a pre-trial judge in the Memić criminal case, states that the searches were conducted due to a well-founded suspicion that the committed crimes were organized crime and assistance to the perpetrator after the crime was committed.

A new investigation is awaited

The accused in this case are Alisa Mutap-Ramić, her father Zijad Mutap, Muamer Ožegović, a receptionist at the Crystal Hotel at the time when the recordings were deleted, and police officers Josip Barić and Hasan Dupovac. A month ago, they denied guilt in the Court of B&H, and their trial is scheduled to begin on October 7. It is a question of the day when the investigation for the murder will be opened.