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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR THE CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE UNDER ARTICLE 236 OF THE CC BIH
16.08.2019. 14:52Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption issued an indictment against the following person:
- Brane Andrić, born in 1993 in Brčko, BiH citizen.
The accused is charged with having acted in consultation with the suspect Marko Andrić on 6 October 2016 in Obudovac, a place located in Šamac municipality, when, aware that pursuant to an order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina searches of apartments, premises and movable property were being carried out in order to collect evidence, he removed and hid two mobile phones from the suspect’s vehicle.
In this way and in the intent to prevent and complicate the collection of evidence of the crime, the accused hid a mobile telephone that was subject to investigation and special investigative actions, thus preventing the expert examination and use of the mobile telephone in question as evidence, and by doing so prevented and significantly complicated the collection of evidence within the investigation of the criminal offense of Illicit Trade in Excise Products.
The accused is charged with having committed the criminal offense of Tampering with Evidence referred to in Article 236 (2). of the CC BiH.
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