Asim Sarajlić (born 3 October 1975) is a Bosnian

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who is a member of the national House of Peoples. He is a member of the

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as well.

Biography

Born in

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in 1975, Sarajlić holds a degree from the Faculty of Political Science at the

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the largest ...

. In April 1992, he joined the

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as a juvenile and was wounded twice in the Bosnian War. He is married to Emina Sarajlić and they have two children. Sarajlić served as mayor of the municipality of

from 2 October 2004 until 10 November 2010. At the 2010 election Sarajlić was elected to the national

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for the SDA party, and re-elected in 2014. After the 2018 election, in February 2019 Sarajlić was appointed to the national House of Peoples. Sarajlić was also a member of the presidency and Vice-president of the

until 3 March 2020, after which he resigned from both positions because of a political scandal. In April 2022, Sarajlić was added to the

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of individuals whose assets are blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them. Sarajlić was designated under Executive Order 14033, which targets persons who threaten the stability of the

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region through corruption, criminal activity, and other destabilizing behavior. According to the designation,home.treasury.gov
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"Asim Sarajlić is a member of the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and was until recently a high-ranking Party of Democratic Action (SDA) official in BiH. Sarajlić is the infamous subject of the “Asim affair,” a political corruption scandal in which Sarajlić was caught promising to secure a job for the wife of a party delegate in exchange for a requested vote on a political party position. Sarajlić has been indicted for additional offenses, including abuse of office and influence peddling. Sarajlić has also abused his position in relation to
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, a large BiH state-owned enterprise. In this capacity, Sarajlić personally accepted from payment from job applicants in exchange for positions, and otherwise exerted inordinate influence over the hiring process. As part of this activity, Sarajlić recommended candidates who were reportedly severely underqualified, undermining the integrity of the company. Sarajlić was designated pursuant to E.O. 14033 for being responsible for or complicit in, or for having directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption related to the Western Balkans, including corruption by, on behalf of, or otherwise related to a government in the Western Balkans, or a current or former government official at any level of government in the Western Balkans, such as the misappropriation of public assets, expropriation of private assets for personal gain or political purposes, or bribery."

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Asim Sarajlić
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