INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST TWO PERSONS FOR COUNTERFEITING OF MONEY

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against two persons charged with the criminal offense of Organized Crime, as referred to in Article 250, in conjunction with the criminal offense of Counterfeiting of Money, as referred to in Article 205 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against the following persons:

-      Nevenko Božičić, born on 24 April 1960 in Orašje, in the Municipality of Prnjavor, a resident of the Republic of Serbia, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia, and

-      Slavko Bibić, born on 13 August 1965 in Zlopoljac, in the Municipality of Bihać, a resident of the Republic of Serbia, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia.

The accused Nevenko Božičić and Slavko Bibić are charged with joining an organized group of persons and becoming members of that group organized by a citizen of the Republic of Slovakia for the purpose of counterfeiting of money or production of false money, namely counterfeits of US dollar banknotes, and putting that money into circulation as genuine in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, all with the aim of acquiring illegal material gain.

In the course of 2014 and all until the 21^st of July 2014, these accused persons made and acquired a larger quantity of counterfeit USD banknotes in the denomination of USD 100, and they smuggled those banknotes from the Republic of Serbia to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on several occasions from the 21^st to the 26^th of July 2014.

Subsequently, they put 122 counterfeit banknotes in the denomination of USD 100 into circulation in post offices and exchange offices in several cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the total value of USD 12,200 (approximately BAM 18,000). Nevenko Božičić was converting the money in the BiH currency and, in doing so, he was identifying himself as a Slovenian national and using a counterfeit identification card of the Republic of Slovenia issued to the name of Niko Kovač from Maribor, while Slavko Bibić was waiting for him with a vehicle and driving him from one city to another.

Moreover, on 18 August 2014, these accused persons attempted to smuggle 200 counterfeit hundred-dollar banknotes, with the intention of putting them into circulation in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those banknotes were found with them and confiscated. 

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.