Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH issued an indictment against the following persons:
1. A.S. (1975) from Prizren in Kosovo, a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, remanded in custody as of April 3, 2013,
2. H.A. (1978) from Prizren, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH,
3. P.E. (1964) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH,
4. P.A. (1962) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
5. H.N. (1982) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
6. R.A. (1980) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
7. T. Š. (1975) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
8. A.R. (1948) from Zvornik, BiH citizen
9. E.B. (1984) from Bijeljina, BiH citizen
10. R.M. (1991) from Bijeljina, BiH citizen
11. K.A. (1984) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
12. Š. E. (1990) from Velika Kladuša, a citizen of BiH and the Republic of Croatia,
13. G.M. (1976) from Pale, citizen of BiH,
14. K.A. (1977) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH
15. K.A. (1981) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH
16. H.A. (1988) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH
17. N.V. (1971) from Velika Kladuša, citizen of BiH,
18. R.M. (1980) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH
19. P.E. (1977) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH
20. M.N. (1977) from Velika Kladuša, with prior convictions, citizen of BiH, and
21. S.S. (1971) from Velika Kladuša, a citizen of BiH and the Republic of Croatia.
The accused are charged to have, during the period from December 20, 2012 to April 4, 2013 in a joint action through mutually agreed and connected activities, organized illegal transfer - smuggling of foreign nationals - mostly Albanian nationals, through the territory of Macedonia, Serbia, BIH, Croatia and Slovenia further into Western Europe for financial gain.
As alleged in the indictment, the suspects have, during this period, organized the smuggling of 78 migrants in total. During the organized smuggling of illegal immigrants the accused carried out a number of preparatory activities concerning their transport in BiH, illegal crossing of the BiH border and arranging for their handover during organized illegal transfer to Republic of Slovenia. Several persons were involved in this Illegal transfer of immigrants to EU countries in different ways e.g. accommodating and transporting them. The people involved have accommodated immigrants for overnight stays until their transfer, prepared the necessary documents for immigrants, borrowed or rented motor vehicles and performed all other activities necessary to transport illegal immigrants to a certain destination.
The first accused was holding the entire organization under his control starting from communications with immigrants or people who were seeking for illegal transfer of a number of immigrants abroad to hiring other people for handover and further care of transportation and all other above listed actions. The accused A.S. has also handled the money issues i.e. he charged 500 Euros for the service of illegal transfer from Bosnia to Slovenia, and 4.000 Euros form Kosovo to certain countries in the EU, and ensured payments for services of accomplices engaged in all these activities.
Consequently, the accused persons are charged with membership in an organized crime group, which has jointly committed or attempted to commit the criminal offense by violating the law of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the purpose of obtaining unlawful gain i.e. transfer across the border of persons who did not meet the requirements for legal entry across the state border and enabling others to illegally cross the state border, thereby committing the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250 in conjunction with Smuggling of Persons under Article 189 of the CC BiH.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation