INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF SMUGGLING OF PERSONS

Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption has issued an Indictment against the following persons:

- SINIŠA ŠAKIĆ, born in 1985 in Banjaluka, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and

- ZORAN MILOŠEVIĆ, born in 1979 in Zenica, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

These accused persons are charged with transporting an illegal migrant, a fugitive from German justice, and enabling his stay on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to acquire material gain in the amount of EUR 2,500.

According to the allegations in the Indictment, in the course of January 2018, these accused persons arranged the transport and accommodation for the illegal migrant and other services during the migrant’s stay on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  For these services, the illegal migrant paid the aforementioned amount of money to the first accused through a bank in Germany.

The migrant entered the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina illegally, outside the border crossing, and, immediately after, the accused persons waited for him in the area of Novi Grad, as they had previously agreed. Then they headed towards Prijedor in a vehicle driven by the second accused, but they were stopped at the highway and controlled by the police.

The accused persons are charged to have committed the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons, as referred to in Article 189, Paragraph 2 as read with Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in conjunction with Article 29 of the same Code.

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