Having held a hearing to deliberate on a guilty plea agreement and a sentencing hearing in the case of Mirsen Ćano, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina handed down, on 4 January 2022, a judgment finding the accused Mirsen Ćano guilty of commission of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH) in connection with the criminal offense of Accepting Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 217(2) of the CC BiH. The Court imposed on the accused a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 1 (one) year.

During the period between 2018 and 14 February 2019, as the Head of the Customs Outpost Velika Kladuša, Indirect Taxation Authority BiH (ITA BiH), with a view of obtaining property gain, H.A. organized and led an organized criminal group established for the purpose of perpetration of criminal offense of Accepting Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit. Several official persons of the ITA BiH, Customs Outpost Velika Kladuša joined the group, including the accused Mirsen Ćano in the capacity of a senior clerk-customs officer and the responsible person of the „VEDS-ŠPED “d.o.o. Velika Kladuša shipping agency.

In the course of performing the activities of customs control and procedures related to import of second-hand vehicles and other goods, customs official persons used wide-range possibilities in determining the value of the goods or the customs basis/value, and requested gifts from importers in return for conducting the customs procedure they were obligated to conduct. They did the foregoing by determining in advance the value of vehicles and other goods to which customs duties and VAT would be calculated, and by requesting gifts from importers in return for the acceptance of allegedly decreased values of the goods, which they used to call »coffee«,  in the amount of KM 70-100 for one second-hand vehicle or more, depending on the value of vehicles and other goods.