TERRORISM SUSPECT HANDED OVER TO THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

SIPA officers handed over suspect Adnan Ćatić, born in 1988 in Zenica, to the BiH Prosecutor’s Office in the afternoon. 

The suspect is under investigation and is charged with having participated in the foreign battlefields of Syria and Iraq, where he operated in the structures of the so-called "ISIS", which was declared a terrorist organization by the UN Security Council.

The suspect is charged with having joined the structures of "ISIS"  at the age 25, and spent about 10 years in the Middle East and is one of the suspects with the longest stay in that area.

Following the questioning of the suspect the Assigned Prosecutor from the Terrorism Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina will file a motion to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for remand in custody because the matter concerns a suspect who was, inter alia, unavailable to the judicial authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a long period of time.

The BiH Prosecutor’s Office and partner institutions and law enforcement agencies in BiH and abroad are conducting activities aimed at locating, extraditing and prosecuting several persons who have been on foreign battlefields in the past period, with the aim of their deportation and criminal prosecution in Bosnia and Herzegovina.