INDICTMENT ISSUED IN THE CASE CODENAMED ‘‘SUCCESSOR’’ FOR INTERNATIONAL SMUGGLING OF A LARGER QUANTITY OF NARCOTIC DRUGS

Three accused persons are charged with participating, as members of an organized group, in the smuggling of a larger quantity of the skunk marijuana narcotic drug.

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 persons:

-      STJEPAN LAZAREVIĆ, born in 1953 in Pale, with prior convictions, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

-      BOJAN SEGIĆ, born in 1977 in Prnjavor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and

-      VLASTIMIR TOMIĆ, born in 1960 in Valjevo, a citizen of the Republic of Serbia.

These accused persons are charged with illicit international sale, transfer, transport, keeping, mediating further international sale, sending and delivering of the skunk marijuana narcotic drug, from March to May of 2018, which they were procuring from the territory of Albania and distributing to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Austria.

The Indictment alleges that the accused Lazarević was keeping and storing the drug after its procurement, whereas the accused Tomić was finding buyers for the narcotic drug and offering the drug for sale, and the accused Segić was selling and delivering the drug to its ultimate buyers.

According to the allegations in the Indictment, on three occasions, these accused persons were arranging repurchases and deliveries of the skunk marijuana narcotic drug in the total quantity of around fifteen (15) kilograms, for arranged amounts of money, on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Moreover, during the search of the family house of the accused Bojan Segić, forty-five (45) kilograms of the stored foliar fertilizer- Agrostemin was found and seized, the market value of which amounts to BAM 32,857.94 and which the accused Tomić smuggled, without the necessary permits and avoiding customs control, by boat across the Drina river, from the territory of the Republic of Serbia to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as previously arranged with the accused Segić.

These accused persons are charged with the criminal offence of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, as referred to in Article 195, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the accused Segić and Tomić are also charged with the criminal offence of Smuggling of Goods, as referred to in Article 214, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, all in conjunction with Article 53 of the same Code.

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