1.   The accused Borislav Erić, born on 17 August 1984 in Bijeljina where he also resides, citizen of BiH, has entered into Plea Agreement with the Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, thus admitting guilt for the crimes charged upon him. Pursuant to the Plea Agreement, the Prosecutor agrees that the accused be rendered an imprisonment sentence of one (1) year and six (6) months by the Court of BiH, which will not be executed providing that the accused does not commit another criminal offense within the next four (4) years.

2.   The accused Mihailo Ristić aka Miko, born on 06 June 1991 in Bijeljina where he also resides, citizen of BiH has entered into Plea Agreement with the Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, thus admitting guilt for the crimes charged upon him. Pursuant to the Plea Agreement, the Prosecutor agrees that the accused be rendered an imprisonment sentence of one (1) year and four (4) months by the Court of BiH, which will not be executed providing that the accused does not commit another criminal offense within the next four (4) years.

3.   The accused Mladen Gluhović aka Mlađo, born on 08 June 1976 in Sarajevo, resident of Pale, citizen of BiH, has entered into Plea Agreement with the Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, thus admitting guilt for the crimes charged upon him. Pursuant to the Plea Agreement, the Prosecutor agrees that the accused be rendered an imprisonment sentence of one (1) year and two (2) months by the Court of BiH, which will not be executed providing that the accused does not commit another criminal offense within the next three (3) years.

By virtue of signing the Plea Agreements, all the aforementioned accused persons fully admitted committing the criminal offense they are charged with by the Indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH dated 12 August 2013. The proposed sentences are in line with the role of the accused persons in the commission of the criminal offenses described in the Indictment, as well as aggravating and mitigating circumstances on the side of the accused persons.

These accused are charged to have, during the period from 20 December 2012 to 4 April 2013 and with the intent to acquire financial gain, acted jointly in a sequence of mutually agreed and interconnected actions thus performing organized illegal transfer - smuggling of foreign nationals, mostly Albanians, across the territories of Macedonia, Serbia, BiH, Republic of Croatia and Republic of Slovenia towards the Western European countries.

With these Plea Agreements, the accused persons confirm to be aware of the content of the Indictment issued by the BiH Prosecutor's Office. At the same time, they confirm to give their plea statements voluntarily, consciously and with the full understanding of legal consequences, pursuant to Article 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By signing the Plea Agreement, all these accused persons accept to testify as Prosecution witnesses before the Court of BiH when summoned to do so by the Court of BiH, against other suspects covered by this investigation or by a possible Indictment, as well as to testify against persons in other investigative proceedings conducted in the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH of whom they have certain information.  

With this Plea Agreement, these accused persons waive their right to a trial and right to appeal to a criminal sanction imposed upon them by the Court of BiH on the basis of this Plea Agreement.  

The Plea Agreements were submitted to the Court of BiH.