Perjury

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Perjury

The crime of lying under oath or making a false statement on an affidavit. In order to be considered an act of perjury, the false statement must relate to the matter at hand; it would not be perjury, for example, to falsely state a person's eye color unless it involves the identification of a defendant. Prosecutions for perjury, however, are fairly unusual.

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'Namely, from the evidence gathered so far, the basis of the suspicion arises that Mektic, as the responsible person, the Minister of Security in the Council of Ministers of BiH, obtained certain confidential information, and then in different ways, although he knew that he was obliged to keep information classified, shared them with persons who do not have the authority to access classified information, and then misinformed the public, and ultimately gave false testimony in the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, which caused severe consequences for the safety, the rule of law and the reputation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,' it is said in the statement.

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