INDICTMENT ISSUED WITHIN THE OPERATION CODENAMED ‘PAPYRUS’ FOR IDENTITY THEFT AND Forgery OF CIPS DOCUMENTS

The accused Bojan Raonić (1983) is charged with having participated in obtaining personal CIPS documents, with falsified data, which were sold to persons of criminal background in Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighboring countries, and with having committed the criminal offenses of Organized Crime, Forgery of a Document and Certification of Untrue Content.

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

- Bojan Raonić, born on 29 January 1983 in Zvornik, citizen of BiH, currently in custody.

The accused is charged with having joined an organized criminal group, made up of several persons, who have committed criminal offenses of forgery and certification of untrue content, thus carrying out illegal registration of residence of persons in BiH, with falsified data that belonged to other persons, and enabling obtaining of CIPS personal documents, including identity cards and travel documents within the IDDEEA CIPS system through use of data and identity of others.

The accused have acquired unlawful property gain through commission of criminal offenses and have caused harm to security of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The documents in questions were sold for amounts that go as high as 6000 euros, to persons of criminal background from Serbia and in one case from Bulgaria, who have then committed crimes and were found to have used personal documents of Bosnia and Herzegovina with false data, which jeopardized their prosecution and caused harm to the reputation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in international judicial, police and security structures.

A detailed and lengthy investigation conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH with partner law enforcement and security agencies, has unveiled this very sophisticated form of crime, which is harmful to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the security of citizens. The investigation resulted with collection of data that the accused Raonić has, in at least five individual cases, been involved in illegal activities related to obtaining BiH documents with falsified data in Mostar area and several locations in Sarajevo Canton.

The accused is charged with the criminal offense of Organized Crime, Forgery of a Document and Certification of Untrue Content.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH will prove the guilt of the accused by calling more than 70 witnesses and presenting about 140 pieces of evidence.

Operation codenamed ‘Papyrus’ represents a decisive activity of the judiciary and the police in the fight against sophisticated forms of crime with international element, with the aim to protect the system of personal documents of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.