The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
OVERVIEW OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK BETWEEN 24 NOVEMBER AND 28 NOVEMBER 2025
28.11.2025. 13:27
INDICTMENT FILED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF HUMAN SMUGGLING
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Asim Paldum*, born in 1973 in Sarajevo, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is accused of admitting four migrants, citizens of Afghanistan, on 21 August last year for an agreed amount of money, with the intention of transporting them to the territory of the Republic of Croatia, where they were discovered and prevented by members of the Border Police of BiH, in Orahova, near the state border. The defendant is charged with having committed the criminal offence of Smuggling of persons in violation of Article 189 (1) of the Criminal Code of BiH in conjunction with Article 26 of the same Code.
INDICTMENT FILED AGAINST BAJRO MURTIĆ FOR CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF COUNTERFEITING MONEY
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Bajro Murtić* aka “Bradonja”, born in 1997 in Velika Kladuša, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is alleged against him that on 10 January of this year, in Velika Kladuša, when buying a car, he put a counterfeit 500 EUR banknote into circulation as a real one, which he knew was counterfeit. The defendant is charged with having committed the criminal offence of Counterfeiting money set out in Article 205 (1) of the Criminal Code of BiH.
FINAL AND BINDING CONVICTION RECEIVED FOR CORRUPTION CRIMINAL OFFENCE
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH received a third-instance judgment in the case against Dragan Šojić, former Director of the Service for Joint Affairs of the Institutions of BiH /SZZP BiH/. The judgment imposed a prison sentence of 10 months and a fine of BAM 5,000. In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed an indictment in late 2022 charging the defendant with having committed the corruption criminal offence of misuse of the SZZP BiH funds and resources, which relates to the use of official vehicles in the period between 2018 and 2022. In this way he acquired illicit property gain and damaged the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereby he committed the criminal offence of Abuse of office or authority set out in Article 220 of the Criminal Code of BiH.
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).
