INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR SMUGGLING OF PERSONS

The accused Mirsad Nuković is charged with having committed the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons under Article 189 of the CC BiH.

Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption issued an indictment against the following person:

-        Mirsad Nuković, born in 1970 in Novi Pazar, a citizen of the Republic of Serbia.

The accused is charged with having obtained personal documents issued for persons of female sex, sometime towards the end of 2016, for the purpose of illicit smuggling of Cuban migrants, who had previously been sexually exploited, from Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The smuggled migrants were transgender persons who were transported illegally across the border crossing from Serbia to BiH by use of personal documents of other persons, misleading the official person of the BiH Border Police about the actual identity of the persons transported, thus allowing for illegal crossing of the state border by two migrants, citizen of Cuba, whose original travel documents were previously seized by the accused.

The indictment alleges that the accused situated the illegal migrants in Busovača municipality in BiH and then returned to Serbia. The illegal migrants were detected on exit from BiH at the border crossing Gradiška sometime towards the end of 2016 when attempting to leave for EU countries.

The accused is charged with having committed the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons under Article 189 of the CC BiH.

The indictment was confirmed by the Court of BiH.