PERSONS ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING OF MARIJUANA-SKUNK NARCOTIC DRUG ENTERED INTO PLEA AGREEMENTS. SENTENCES OF TWO (2) YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT AND OF ONE (1) YEAR AND FOUR (4) MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT PROPOSED, RESPECTIVELY

As part of a case of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption, the following accused persons have entered into Plea Agreements admitting guilt: 

1. Milan Kuljić aka Kravera, born on 12 April 1974 in Trebinje, with prior convictions, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

2. Dragan Gačić aka Gača, born on 14 December 1980 in Stolac, with prior convictions, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

These accused persons have pled guilty to the criminal offense of Organized Crime and the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, as described in the Indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was issued on 27 January 2014.

The Prosecutor agrees that the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina impose the sentence of imprisonment for a term of two (2) years upon the accused Kuljić and the sentence of imprisonment for a term of one (1) year and four (4) months upon the accused Gačić, pursuant to these Plea Agreements. 

All objects used for perpetration of the aforementioned criminal offenses will be confiscated from the accused persons, several mobile telephones and SIM cards included.   

The proposed punishment is in accordance with the roles that these accused persons had within the organized criminal group which was perpetrating the criminal offenses. 

By signing the Plea Agreements, these accused persons have agreed to testify, when summoned to do so by the Prosecutor’s Office or Court, on all the criminal offenses they have pled guilty to, as well as on the perpetrators of the offenses and their co-perpetrators, and on other criminal offenses encompassed by the Indictment that they have knowledge of.

By signing these Plea Agreements, the accused persons have waived their right to a trial and right to appeal to the Verdict pronounced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis of these Plea Agreements.

The respective Plea Agreements have been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.