CUSTODY MOTION FOR IRANIAN CITIZEN SUSPECTED OF MIGRANT SMUGGLING

According to the available evidence, the suspect stole a car in the territory of the Republic of Serbia by which he smuggled four illegal migrants to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH sent a motion to the Court of BiH to order custody against the suspect:

-            Abdolah Djakam, born in 1987 in the city of Mahabad, Iran, a citizen of Iran.

The suspect was deprived of freedom by police officers of the Republika Srpska Ministry of Interior in the Visegrad area, in a vehicle he was operating, along with four illegal migrants who are also Iranian citizens.

According to the collected evidence, the group of the illegal migrants who did not meet the conditions for legal entry and stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina were transported and smuggled to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the car the suspected perpetrator stole in Serbia.

The suspect smuggled them at the place that is not foreseen for the legal crossing of the state border and organised their transport across the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus acting contrary to Article 6 of the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against transnational organised crime.

After interviewing the suspect, the prosecutor working on the case sent a motion to the Court of BiH that the suspect be ordered into custody, as he is a foreign citizen who would become inaccessible to the judicial authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina if he left BiH.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, together with partner police and security agencies, acts almost daily in cases related to illegal migration in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.