INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR ILLICIT INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING IN NARCOTIC DRUGS WITH ELEMENTS OF HIGH-TECH AND CYBER CRIME

A prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has filed an indictment against:

- ASMIR MULAJ, born in 1988, from Živinice, a citizen of BiH.

It is alleged against the accused that in the period from October 2012 to February 2016, in order to gain illegal property gain, he organised an international group from several EU countries to commit criminal offences of international drug trafficking, damage to computer data and programmes, and money laundering.

For the purpose of illicit trafficking in narcotics, the accused formed two “forums” on the illegal drug market on the Internet in the German-speaking area, where the illegal international sale and purchase of narcotics “marijuana” and “ecstasy” took place.

According to the allegations from the indictment, the accused possessed computer programmes on his computer, the possession of which was not allowed, as well as data created and adapted for the commission of a criminal offence, received payments in cryptocurrencies and through Western Union, and disposed with and used the money he obtained illegally as a material benefit for the purposes known to him.

According to the evidence gathered, the accused coordinated the work of other persons in the chain who operated from different EU countries and, through mediation in the sale of narcotics and by using special programmes for the so-called “fishing” and fraud with bank cards and means of payment via the Internet, acquired an illegal property gain in the total amount of BAM 60,436.05, which was paid to him through Western Union transactions abroad and in BiH.

The accused is charged with the criminal offence of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195 (2) of the Criminal Code of BiH as read with Paragraph (1) thereof, criminal offence of Damage to Computer Data and Programmes under Article 393 (5) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of BiH, and the criminal offence of Money Laundering under Article 209 of the CC BiH, all in conjunction with Article 53 theoreof.

Working on this complex case of high-tech crime, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH conducted a comparative investigation with partner institutions of several EU countries and achieved significant international cooperation with institutions for combating high-tech crime, as well as with the Departments for High-Tech Crime within the RS Ministry of Interior and the Federation Police Administration, which provided significant assistance in the work on this case.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.