INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST TWO PERSONS FOR COUNTERFEITING OF MONEY

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against two persons charging them with the criminal offense of 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 the following persons:

-        Almir Šarotić, born on June 21, 1976 in Doboj, residing in Tešanj, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and

-        Emir Bašić, born on December 18, 1971 in Doboj, permanently residing in Tešanj, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused are charged with having met with a person in Italy, as previously arranged and instructed, in the evening of June 16, 2014 for handover of 75 banknotes of € 100 for which they paid the amount of € 1500 aware that the banknotes were counterfeits which they intended to put into circulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused are charged with putting counterfeit money into circulation as genuine, thereby committing the criminal offense of Counterfeiting of Money under Article 205, Paragraph 2 in conjunction with Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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