INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF SMUGGLING OF PERSONS

Prosecutor of 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 persons:

- BLAGOJE KOMAR (1965) and MARKO ŠEKARIĆ (1979), from Bileća, both of them citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Montenegro.

These accused persons are charged with intending to transport illegally from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Republic of Montenegro one person from the territory of Kosovo, who had no valid documents nor travel documents, on 29 May 2018, so that the person could continue moving towards the Republic of Serbia. All that was committed for the purpose of acquiring unlawful material gain in an agreed amount of EUR 350, according to the previous agreement.

The accused were intercepted and prevented in the execution of the criminal offense and they were subsequently deprived of liberty by the police officers of the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the handover of the agreed sum of money. 

These accused persons are charged, as co-perpetrators motivated by greed, with illegally transporting or enabling illegal transportation of other person across the state border, whereby they committed the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons, as referred to in Article 189, 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.