VEHICLE USED FOR SMUGGLING LARGE QUANTITIES OF NARCOTIC DRUGS FOUND WITHIN “TRANSIT” CASE

24.11.2023. 13:07 Working on the case code-named “Transit” and using evidence from encrypted SKY and Anom applications, SIPA police officers, in cooperation with the police of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Interior and Republika Srpska Ministry of Interior, apprehended two suspects in the area of East Sarajevo.  

AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE SIGNED

21.11.2023. 14:03 At the seat of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Luxembourg, an agreement on cooperation between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina was signed by Laura Kovesi, EPPO Chief Prosecutor, and, Milanko Kajganić, Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.    

TERRORISM SUSPECT HANDED OVER TO THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

20.11.2023. 08:13 SIPA officers handed over suspect Adnan Ćatić, born in 1988 in Zenica, to the BiH Prosecutor’s Office in the afternoon. 

DUTY PROSECUTOR OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH COORDINATES ACTIVITIES TO PREVENT THE SMUGGLING OF 74 MIGRANTS - MEASURES PROPOSED FOR THE SUSPECTS INCLUDE DETENTION MEASURES AND PROHIBITION MEASURES

17.11.2023. 14:30 Acting within his 24-hour on-call duty, the prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH received information from members of the Border Police of BiH that during border control on two occasions, four suspects were discovered in respective attempts to smuggle a total of 74 migrants, including 30 children, in vans and a passenger motor vehicle.

 

THREE ACCUSED PERSONS SIGN PLEA AGREEMENTS ADMITTING THEIR GUILT IN SKY CASE

15.11.2023. 14:44 The sentences proposed are those of 1 to 3 years in prison, a fine, and confiscation of instrumentalities used in the perpetration of the criminal offence. 

BY ORDER OF THE BIH PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, AN ANTICORRUPTION OPERATION IS UNDERWAY; SEVERAL POLICE AND CUSTOMS OFFICERS WERE ARRESTED.

15.11.2023. 11:02 Acting on the order of a Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, police officers of SIPA, in cooperation with the RS Ministry of Interior and the Police of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are conducting an operation codenamed "Divič". The activities are aimed at prosecuting corrupt criminal offenses linked with the illegal importation of large quantities of various goods, mainly from the territory of the Republic of Serbia into Bosnia and Herzegovina.


 

INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR TAX EVASION OF APPROXIMATELY BAM 400,000

14.11.2023. 13:25  A Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption issued an indictment against:

PERSONS ACCUSED OF ILLICIT INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND WEAPONS SIGN PLEA AGREEMENTS AND GET FINED AND SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS AND THREE MONTHS OF PRISON

14.11.2023. 12:30
In a case conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, five accused persons pleaded guilty and signed Plea Agreements, after which they were sentenced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

PLEA AGREEMENTS SIGNED FOR SMUGGLING MIGRANTS PRISON SENTENCES PROPOSED AGAINST CITIZENS OF AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

13.11.2023. 15:19 wo accused foreign nationals, who are charged with the criminal offense of smuggling of persons, have signed Plea Agreements in the presence of their attorneys, thus fully admitting their guilt for the committed criminal offence. 

MORTAL REMAINS OF AT LEAST SIX PERSONS FOUND AT EXHUMATION IN NOVO GORAŽDE

13.11.2023. 10:01 In the area of Donja Sopotnica, in the municipality of Novo Goražde, an exhumation process has been carried out under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and incomplete mortal remains of at least six persons have been exhumed.