PERSON ACCUSED IN ‘STEERING WHEEL’ CASE ARRESTED IN NORTH MACEDONIA AND EXTRADITED TO BIH JUDICIARY

The accused Sreto Pajić, born in 1991 in Sarajevo, was arrested in the area of Kumanovo, in North Macedonia, pursuant to an International Arrest Warrant, after violating prohibiting measures and fleeing for several months.

He is one of the accused in the case code-named "Steering Wheel" (Volan), in which several persons were accused of organized crime related to thefts and alienation of a large number of expensive cars in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After the extradition of the accused, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered that he be remanded in custody for a maximum term of two years. In this manner, it will be possible to further prosecute this accused person, on the basis of an Indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina charging him with several criminal offenses related to organized thefts of expensive motor vehicles on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.