INDICTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PROCURING IN PROSTITUTION AND MONEY LAUNDERING ISSUED IN THE ‘TWINS 1’ CASE

An Indictment was issued against three (3) persons, as part of the case codenamed ‘TWINS 1’. These accused persons are charged with acquiring substantial unlawful material gain.

Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against the following persons:

1.   Alija Karahasanović, born in 1980 in Heidelberg, in the Federal Republic of Germany, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

2.      Atilla Aksoy, born in 1978 in Mannheim, in the Federal Republic of Germany, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey,

3.             Jasmin Hodžić, born in 1991 in Tuzla, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

These accused persons are charged with contacting younger girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, who were in a difficult financial and social position, in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and with procuring, persuading and enticing them to offer sexual services for money, as well as with organizing the offering of such services in the territories of Austria and Germany.

The Indictment alleges that the accused persons created internet profiles of these girls for the German-speaking area, and they communicated on the girls’ behalf with potential clients in the German language, thus arranging dates, times and places for offering sexual services.

The victims in this criminal case were in a difficult position, because those were young girls who were in the countries and cities they did not know, they did not know the language of the German-speaking area, and their services were advertised on an internet webpages which, when translated from the original, read: “Buy me”.

These accused persons took from their victims a significant amount of the money thus received, and the investigation has shown that, having been committing these criminal offenses for a longer period of time, unlawful material gain was acquired in an amount that exceeds EUR 350,000, while a significant share of that money was taken by the accused persons.

The aforementioned accused persons are also charged with using the money obtained through the commission of the criminal offenses to buy pricey cars and for their personal purposes.

These accused persons are charged with the following criminal offenses:

-      International Procuring in Prostitution, as referred to in Article 187 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

-      Money Laundering, as referred to in Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

-      Possessing and Enabling Enjoyment of Narcotic Drugs, as referred to in Article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This Indictment represents one segment of the activities carried out as part of the actions codenamed “TWINS” and “LETTER”, and the work on these cases will continue.