A plea hearing before the Section II for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in the Salih Alibašić case, has been scheduled for 9 April 2008 starting at 11:00a.m. in courtroom 6. Salih Alibašić, Mile Gašljević, Đulzara Hozanović, Željko Karanović and Lejla Zuko are charged with the criminal offense of Organized Crime in conjunction with the criminal offense of Smuggling of Persons, and the Accused Đulzara Hozanović is also charged with the criminal offense of Money Laundering.

As alleged in the Indictment, as members of an organized group of people during the period between late 2006 and late April 2007, as well as between early June and late September 2007, the Accused prepared and carried out the transportation of migrants. This group, as alleged in the Indictment, prepared the illegal transfer of immigrants from Albania across the territories of the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, BiH, Croatia and Slovenia, into the countries of the European Union. The migrants did not meet the requirements for the legal entry and stay in the countries they come to, as well as in the countries they intended to go. The Accused, as members of an organized group of people, during the above mentioned period of time, organized the illegal transfer of foreign citizens across the borders of several countries, and by so doing they smuggled around 307 citizens of Albania and Kosovo and gained a significant financial benefit.