INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST DAMIR VUKŠIĆ (1980) FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN NARCOTIC DRUGS

Prosecutor from the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against the following person:

-      DAMIR VUKŠIĆ, born in 1980 in Essen, in the Federal Republic of Germany, residing in Ljubuški.

The accused is charged with transferring around 100 grams of the Cocaine narcotic drug from Germany to Bosnia and Herzegovina, during March of 2016, and then reselling smaller quantities of that narcotic drug in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas the remaining amount of the Cocaine he exchanged for around 500 grams of Heroin, with the intention of selling that drug further to the Republic of Croatia.       

According to the allegations in the Indictment, the accused was prevented from carrying out the sale of the aforementioned narcotic drug and deprived of liberty by authorized police officers. On that occasion, the Heroin narcotic drug of the total net weight of 42.910 grams was found on him and seized.

This accused person is charged with unauthorized international transfer and sale of Cocaine and Heroin narcotic drugs, which are on the list of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and plants from which narcotic drugs and precursors can be obtained, which is in violation of the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Suppression of the Abuse of Narcotic Drugs (‘Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, No. 8/06), whereby he committed the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, as referred to in Article 195, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.