INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST 4 PERSONS FOR COUNTERFEITING OF MONEY

A Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against four persons charging them with the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250, in conjunction with the continued criminal offense of Counterfeiting of Money under Article 205 of the CC BiH.

The persons charged are as follows:

1.   Soče Sandro, born on May 27, 1992 in Makarska, a citizen of BiH and Croatia;

2.   Pervan Tomislav, aka “Gašić”, born on June 29, 1991 in Mostar, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia;

3.   Miličević Josip, born on February 13, 1994 in Mostar, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia;

4.   Majić Kristijan, born on April 8, 1993 in Čapljina, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused are charged with having obtained, in mid-2012, a number of counterfeit banknotes in denominations of € 200 and with having put the counterfeits into circulation in the area of Herzegovina by ways of purchasing goods of lesser value in various retail establishments and petrol stations with counterfeit banknotes and obtaining change and specific goods from the sellers or by way of exchanging counterfeit Euro banknotes for BAM.

In this way the accused obtained illegal profits and caused damages to a number of citizens and legal persons with which they have exchanged/put into circulation the counterfeit banknotes.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.