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THE ACCUSED BOBAN JEREMIĆ ENTERS INTO A PLEA AGREEMENT ADMITTING GUILT
14.06.2017. 15:02The accused Boban Jeremić, born in 1981 in Zvornik, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has entered into a Plea Agreement with the Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The accused has admitted his guilt for the committed criminal offense of Organising a Group or an Association for the Purpose of Perpetration of the Criminal Offence of Smuggling of Migrants, as referred to in Article 189a, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in conjunction with the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons, as referred to in Article 189, Paragraph 1, as read with Article 26 (Attempt) of the same Code.
Pursuant to the Plea Agreement, the sentence of imprisonment for a term between three (3) months and seven (7) months has been proposed in respect of this accused person.
The proposed sentence corresponds to the role that this accused person had in the commission of the criminal offence which was described in the Indictment. At the same time, the accused confirms that he enters this plea of guilty voluntarily, consciously and with understanding.
By virtue of signing this Plea Agreement, the accused waives his right to a trial and right to appeal to the criminal sanction pronounced against him by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This Plea Agreement has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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).