INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR ILLICIT TRADE OF EXCISE PRODUCTS

Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against the following person:

-   Gojko Pezer aka Goja, born on 21 October 1955 in Ružići - Grude municipality, where he resides, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH and the Republic of Croatia.

He is charged with having, on 13 July 2015, purchased and kept a large quantity of tobacco in his family house in Grude in which he resides, in the intent to obtain unlawful gain by way of putting products that he knew were not labeled with control and tax stamps in accordance with the legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the market as he intended to sell the goods on the black market.

The accused kept 83.11 kg of cut tobacco packed in eight sacks, and containers for packaging of such tobacco in the said house aiming to sell tobacco at the so-called black market thus evading payment of excise tax on goods. The aforementioned tobacco and packaging were found and seized during the search of the house by the authorized officials of the Indirect Taxation Authority and the State investigation and Protection Agency.

The accused Gojko Pezer is charged with the criminal offense of Illicit Trade in Excise Products under Article 210a in conjunction with Article 26 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.