Having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing and a sentencing hearing, on 31 October 2023 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered and pronounced a Trial Judgment in the case of Hrvoslav Pandžić (S1 2 K 046692 23 K), by which the accused Hrvoslav Pandžić was found 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) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), and the criminal offense of Forgery of Trademarks, Measures and Weights under Article 208(1) CC BiH, as read with the criminal offense of Illicit Trade under Article 212 CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused to one (1) year of imprisonment.

Pursuant to Articles 110 and 111 of the CC BiH, the ill-gotten gain in the amount of 1,200.00 BAM shall be confiscated from the accused Hrvoslav Pandžić.

The accused has been found guilty that between early 2007 and 7 September 2007, together with other persons, he became a member of an organized group of people for the purposes of Article 1(20) CC BiH, which was organized by T.P. with the intent to manufacture and sell excise products, aimed to obtain ill-gotten gain by unauthorized manufacture and turnover of excise products – tobacco products in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad, so that, in order to carry out the planned operations of the group, they launched the manufacture of cigarettes, knowing full well that they were not registered to manufacture, import or distribute excise products – tobacco products, which they then, with the intent to deceive end-users and other users with regard to the quality, origin, value and other qualities of the goods, packed into false packaging-packs displaying false marks to indicate foreign goods - “Marlboro” cigarettes, of a foreign manufacturer, after which, with the intent to use the packaging as genuine, in violation of Article 23(1) of the Law on Excise Products, they pasted false excise stamps, and packed thus manufactured excise goods into cartons of cigarettes, and then in larger boxes, all with the same false marks, whereby the accused committed the above criminal offenses.