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INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST TWO PERSONS FOR MONEY COUNTERFEITING
20.05.2019. 14:32
Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an Indictment against the following persons:
1. Šećo Osmanović, born in 1994 in Berlin, with prior convictions
2. Kasim Šabanović, born in 1989 in Tuzla, with prior convictions
These accused persons are charged with coming into possession, in a manner known to them, of a larger quantity of counterfeit banknotes of 20 and 50 Euro, in September of 2016, and with bringing one counterfeit 50 Euro banknote into circulation by using it to pay the bill in a catering facility in the area of Srebrenik. After they moved away from the aforementioned catering facility, they were subjected to a police control, on which occasion several counterfeit banknotes in the denominations of 20 and 50 Euro were found on those accused persons and seized from them.
These accused persons are charged with the commission of the criminal offence of Counterfeiting of Money, as referred to in Article 205, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Indictment has been 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).
