IN HIGH-LEVEL ORGANISED CRIME CASE SEVERAL SUSPECTS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY

Acting on orders of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, the police officers of the Administration for Organised and Serious Crime of the Republika Srpska Ministry of the Interior, in cooperation with the Prijedor Police Administration, deprived eight persons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia of their liberty, because of the existence of grounds for suspicion that they were involved in criminal offences of international smuggling of various types of narcotic drugs in the respective territories of the countries of the region, as well as in several instances of smuggling of a large number of illegal migrants from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the Republic of Croatia and EU countries.

Evidence obtained from the SKY application was used in this case.

The suspects are under investigation for the criminal offence of Organised crime under Article 250 of the Criminal Code of BiH /CC BiH/, in conjunction with the criminal offence of Illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs under Article 195 of the CC BiH and the criminal offence of Smuggling of migrants under Article 189a of the CC BiH.