Having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing and a sentencing hearing in the Robert Iličić case, on 5 June 2024 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered and pronounced a Trial Judgment, finding the accused Robert Iličić guilty that by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment he committed the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) CC BiH, as read with the criminal offense of Forgery of Trademarks, Measures and Weights under Article 208(1) CC BiH and the criminal offense of Illicit Trade under Article 212 CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused to one (1) year of imprisonment, and fined him with 100,000.00 BAM, plus it confiscated from him the ill-gotten gain in the amount of 1,200.00 BAM.

The accused has been found guilty that, over a period from early 2007 to 7 September 2007, he became a member of an organized group of people, previously organized by T.P., with the aim of obtaining ill-gotten gain by way of unauthorized manufacture of and trafficking in excise goods – tobacco products in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. It is further said that the organizer, T.P., through different legal and natural persons, imported machines and raw material necessary for cigarette manufacturing and packaging, after which, together with the accused Robert Iličić and other group members known to them, at the hangar in Grude, the place of Drinovci, they launched the manufacturing of cigarettes, which, with the intent of deceiving end buyers and other users concerning their quality, origin, value and other properties, they packed them in a false packaging bearing false marks for the foreign “Marlboro” cigarettes, manufactured by foreign company “Philip Morris”, and then pasted to the packaging, with the intent to use them as genuine, false excise stamps labeled with “Ministry of Finances of the Republic of Serbia,” after which Robert Iličić took the goods for further sale to the group organizer T.P.’s home, who then sold the goods to buyers known to him for 600 to 700 BAM per carton package, by which they ultimately manufactured at least 500 cigarette packs (50,000 cartons).