Having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing and a sentencing hearing in the case of Miroslav Čepo (S1 2 K 045482 23 K), on 23 May 2023 the Court delivered and pronounced a Judgment finding the accused Miroslav Čepo guilty that, in the manner described in the operative part of the Judgment, he committed the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) of the CC BiH, as read with the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(1) of the CC BiH, in conjunction with Article 54 CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused to two (2) years and six (6) months of imprisonment, and fined him with 20,000.00 BAM, which he shall pay within 3 (three) months of the day when the Judgment becomes final.

The ill-gotten gain in the amount of 3,700.00 EUR shall be confiscated from the accused, who must pay the above amount towards the BiH budget within 30 days of the day when the Judgment becomes final.

The accused Miroslav Čepo has been found guilty that over a protracted period of time, between 2011 and late 2017, he voluntarily became a member of a group for organized crime, which was organized for the purpose of continued accumulation of material gain, in order to carry out a previously planned and agreed appropriation of expensive passenger motor vehicles or those whose demand at the market has been on the rise, extortion of money for the return of the vehicles to their rightful owners, dismantling the stolen vehicles for spare parts, altering or destroying identification marks on the dismantled parts, and then their sale, with the intention to conceal the criminal offense, its perpetrators, the origin of the stolen goods and their rightful owners, and smuggling and sale of the stolen vehicles in the territory of Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. Among other things, the accused Miroslav Čepo has on multiple occasions, after other members of the group would steal a motor vehicle, for an amount of money known to him, taken over the vehicle and dismantled it with persons known to him, after which he would sell parts of the dismantled vehicle in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

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