INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS

This accused person is charged with smuggling of eight (8) citizens of Syria, some of whom were minors.

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 person:

-       Dalibor Milinković, born in 1991 in Trebinje, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The aforementioned accused is charged with participating in an unlawful transport of illegal migrants who did not meet the legal requirements for arrival and stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in May of the current year, for the purpose of acquiring unlawful material gain, which is in violation of Article 6 of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

He is charged with arriving in his motor vehicle near the border with Montenegro and with taking over eight (8) citizens of Syria, including a child born in 2016 and another minor, and driving them towards the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, he was detected in the area of Tjentište and subsequently prevented from doing it by the officers of the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This accused person is charged with the commission of the criminal offence of Smuggling of Persons, as referred to in Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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