Pursuant to the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina prosecution of perpetrators of organised, economic crime and corruption is under the jurisdiction of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption. Those crimes include corruption involving employees of the BiH institutions, economic and financial crimes including tax evasion, smuggling, customs fraud and money laundering as well as organised crime including but not limited to international trafficking in drugs and people and other similar offences under the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption was established by the Decision of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2003 and in the beginning only the International Prosecutors worked in it. Subsequently a number of National Prosecutors were appointed to the Special Department and according to the Strategic Plan only the National Prosecutors shall work in the Department by the end of the transition period on 31 December 2009.

Although the Chief Prosecutor of the BiH Prosecutor's Office has emphasized the need to extend the mandate to International Prosecutors engaged in the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption after 2009, the decision of the High Representative in BiH dated December 14, 2009 stipulates that the international prosecutors shall be able to continue their engagement in the Department after 2009 but only as advisors. Currently there are 6 national prosecutors working in the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption.

It is expected that the International Advisors to the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption be appointed in 2010,  pursuant to the Decision of the High Representative in BiH.

Organizational chart of The Special Department For Organized Crime, Economic Crimes And Corruption ("SDOC")