CUSTODY MOTION FOR SUSPECT IN “TRANSFER” OPERATION

The activities of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH in this case are aimed at detecting and prosecuting persons suspected of having committed highly sophisticated forms of financial fraud. During the work on the case, cooperation was established with Interpol offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as with banks from the territory of the EU.

The case prosecutor of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption sent a motion to the Court of BiH to order a 30-day detention measure for the suspect who was deprived of liberty in the action codenamed “Transfer”.

During the investigation, it was established that the perpetrators of these criminal offences forged bank payment orders and, by using counterfeit documents, entered secure networks and communication systems in order to effect payments from abroad to the accounts of several citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who for a fee, raised such money and handed it over to the suspects.

In order to be as inconspicuous as possible in committing the criminal offenses, the suspects generally forged documents for payments of up to EUR 10.000, so that financial transactions would not be conspicuous to investigating authorities.

The investigation is still determining the amount of unlawful property gain, but it is certainly a multimillion amount acquired through multiple payments with forged payment orders.

The suspects are under investigation for the criminal offences of association for the purpose of committing criminal offences, in conjunction with the criminal offences of fraud, forgery of a document, unauthorised access to the system and network of electronic data processing, and money laundering.

The investigation in the case is being continued intensively.