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INDICTMENT FILED IN THE CASE WITH EVIDENCE FROM SKY AND ANOM APPLICATIONS AGAINST RADOVAN DAMJANOVIĆ (1987)
25.03.2024. 15:30A Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against the defendant Radovan Damjanović, born in Sarajevo in 1987, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The charges against the defendant are that in the period between December 2019 and late 2021, acting within a joint plan and with mutual agreement for the purpose of obtaining illegal property benefits, he was a member of a group for organised crime, which had been organised earlier by the accused Sako Bibić, which dealt in the international trafficking of large quantities of the narcotic drug marijuana – ‘skunk’ and which operated in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and EU countries.
The indictment states that the defendant, by communicating with other persons known to him via the encrypted Sky and Anom applications, carried out the international illegal transfer of the narcotic drug marijuana – ‘skunk’ in the amount of about 200 kg, namely 100 kg on each of the two occasions – on the first occasion first from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Germany and then from the Republic of Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the second occasion first from the Republic of Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which narcotic drugs they then attempted to illegally transfer to the Federal Republic of Germany and EU countries in order to place them on the illegal drug market in those countries.
The defendant is charged with having committed the criminal offence of organised crime in violation of Article 250 (2) of the Criminal Code of BiH, in conjunction with the criminal offence of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs in violation of Article 195 (1) of the same Code.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation, which confirmed it.
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).