MOTION FOR REMAND IN CUSTODY FILED FOR ONE PERSON SUSPECTED OF COUNTERFEITING OF MONEY

The Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed a motion to the Court of BiH for remand in custody of a person suspected of having committed the  criminal offense of Counterfeiting of Money under Article 205, Paragraph 2 of the CC BiH.

Motion for remand in custody was filed for the suspect Ramiz Džuzdanović - born on March 12, 1992 in Bijeljina, a citizen of the Republic of France.

The suspect was apprehended by authorized officers of the Tuzla Canton Tuzla MoI on April 19, 2014 at 21:00 after he had repeatedly attempted to put counterfeit € banknotes, obtained and entered into BiH from abroad, into circulation in various BiH towns.

This investigation was coordinated by a Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and it involved substantial cooperation of entity MoIs in the Vlasenica and Živinice areas as well as other places in which the suspect put counterfeit banknotes into circulation.

Hundreds of counterfeit € banknotes mostly in denominations of 10 and 20 were found during the search of the suspect and the facilities he used.

The Prosecutor's Office filed a motion to the Court of BiH to remand the suspect in custody for one month on grounds specified in Article 132, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph a) of the CPC BiH i.e. due to risk of flight.

Motion for remand in custody was filed with the Court of BiH.