INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST 2 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 referred to in Article 205 (1) and (2) of the Criminal Code of BiH, in conjunction with Article 54 of the same Code.

Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued an indictment against the following persons:

-        Eldin MUHIĆ (1997) and Senad KLIČIĆ (1988) from Cazin, citizens of BiH.

The indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges the accused with having, on 9 March 2016 after having previously obtained counterfeit banknotes from a person from Cazin area i.e. a person who made with the help of the printer, several BAM banknotes in denominations of 20, 50 and 100, put the counterfeited banknotes into circulation as genuine.

The next day in the evening hours in the restaurant in Cazin, the accused persons put into circulation two counterfeit banknotes in the denomination of BAM 50 as genuine banknotes, by way of paying the bills for ordered drinks in order to obtain change in genuine banknotes and then left the place.

According to the indictment, realizing that they could be detected they threw the counterfeit banknotes into a garbage can but were spotted by police officers of PS Cazin. During the search counterfeit BAM banknotes were found in denominations of 3x100 and 8x50 as well as A4 paper on which banknotes were printed in denominations 3x100 and 3x20.

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