1.   with the colleagues from the Netherlands and Sweden, respectively, the smuggling Adis Ramić, born on 10 January 1979 in Visoko, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

2.   Osman Abdel Salam, born on 01 January 1962 in Beirut, a resident of Sweden, a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden,

3.   Amar Šljivo, born on 08 January 1975 in Sarajevo, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

All the three accused persons were deprived of liberty on 13 March 2015 and are currently held in pre-trial custody.

In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has established significant international cooperation with judicial and police authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Sweden, respectively.

The investigation in this case has shown that these accused persons were members of an organized group established by the first accused Ramić and that they participated in the procurement and making of an explosive device of great destructive power with the possibility of remote activation, which they, in an agreement with other persons, attempted to smuggle to the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden, so that the explosive device could be used in the area of the City of Malmö in Sweden.

On several occasions, the first accused Ramić has had contacts with a person serving sentence in a prison in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as with another person in the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden, and with those two persons he arranged the procurement of the explosive device in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The explosive device was made by the accused Šljivo and they paid 2500 Euro for it. 

The accused Abdel Salam attempted to smuggle this explosive device from Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an Audi car with Swedish registration plates, but he was detected in the perpetration of this criminal offense, while he was heading towards the BiH border crossing where he was deprived of liberty, whereas the explosive device was found in a hidden place in the vehicle. 

These accused persons are charged as follows: Adis Ramić is charged with organizing a group of people in the sense of Article 1, Paragraph 18 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the purpose of mediating in an international trade of arms without a license prescribed by the Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Osman Abdel Salam and Amar Šljivo are charged, as members of an organized group of people, with mediating in the international trade of arms without a license prescribed by the Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

They are accused of attempting to smuggle, from Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the Kingdom of Sweden, an illegally procured and constructed explosive device intended for the commission of a grave criminal offense in the territory of Sweden, whereby they committed the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Arms and Military Equipment and Products of Dual Use, as referred to in Article 193, Paragraph 3 in conjunction with Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In view of the fact that the search of the house and facilities used by the accused Amar Šljivo resulted in finding arms and ammunition the procurement of which is not permitted under any circumstances to BiH citizens, he is therefore additionally charged with the criminal offense of Illicit Possession of Weapons or Explosive Substances, as referred to in Article 371, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In a decisive action of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and police and security agencies of Bosnia and Herzegovina which participated in the Benelux operation and in cooperation of the explosive device, which was intended for the commission of a grave criminal offense in the territory of Sweden and which could have killed or injured several persons, was detected and prevented.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina resumes its fight against perpetrators of the criminal offenses of smuggling of arms, explosives and military equipment, because these criminal offenses pose a serious threat to the security of the citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad, and the thus smuggled arms and explosives could be used for the perpetration of the criminal offenses of terrorism or organized crime.