The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
INDICTMENT FILED FOR SMUGGLING A FOREIGN CITIZEN
07.02.2024. 13:09
The defendant is charged with transporting a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, from the territory of Kosovo, across the state border, who did not meet the conditions for legal crossing of the state border, with the intention of acquiring unlawful property gain - monetary compensation.
On January 26 of last year, after accepting him in Mostar, the defendant brought the aforementioned foreign citizen to a shopping centre near the borderline between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia and gave him instructions on how to go to the territory of the Republic of Croatia, after which he left in an unknown direction. In an attempt to cross the borderline, the foreign citizen was caught by police officers of the BiH Border Police.
The defendant is charged with having committed the criminal offence of smuggling of persons set forth in Article 189 (1) of the Criminal Code of BiH.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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).
