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INDICTMENT FILED AGAINST ISLAM OSMANBEGOVIĆ (1967)
16.08.2012. 15:11Prosecutor of the Section III of the BiH Prosecutor's Office has filed an Indictment against Islam Osmanbegović aka ‘Paša’, born on 26 March 1967 in Visoko Municipality where he also resides, with prior convictions, a citizen of BiH.
The accused Islam Osmanbegović is charged with putting into circulation a counterfeit banknote of KM 200 on 08 May 2012, around 7.30 PM in Visoko, knowing that this banknote was counterfeit; namely, he asked a third person to replace the banknote in question with banknotes of smaller denomination, which the third person did and thus gave him the genuine money.
The accused is charged with putting the false money into circulation as genuine, whereby he committed the criminal offence of Counterfeiting of Money in violation of Article 205(1) of the Criminal Code of BiH.
The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).
