INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE AMOUNT OF AROUND 76000 BAM

The accused Nikola Kuzmanović (1994) is charged with the commission of the criminal offence of Money Laundering, in 2019, by disposing of a larger amount of money, which was established to originate from a criminal offence committed abroad.

A Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption has issued an Indictment against the following person:

-  Nikola Kuzmanović, born in 1994 in Banja Luka, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This accused person is charged with receiving monetary amounts on two occasions during 2019, in the area of ​​Banja Luka, and then disposing of the money in the total amount of BAM 76,837.00, which he knew to have originated from a criminal offence committed abroad, all for the purpose of acquiring unlawful property gain.

The Indictment alleges that the aforementioned accused person had knowledge that the persons known to him had committed the criminal offence of computer fraud on the territory of the French Republic, using POS card devices and corresponding bank cards, and that they had conducted several unlawful monetary transactions to the detriment of two commercial banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The money from the illegal transactions was paid into the accounts of the accused opened with commercial banks in Banja Luka, who immediately withdrew the money and disposed of it, thus obtaining illegal property gain in the stated amount. 

The accused is charged to have committed the continued criminal offence of Money Laundering, referred to in Article 209, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.