Having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing in the case of Srećko Mandić (S1 2 K 051067 25 K), on 25 February 2025 the Court of BiH delivered and pronounced a Judgment finding the accused Srećko Mandić guilty of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) CC BiH, as read with the criminal offense of Aggravated Theft under Article 287(1)a) CC FBiH, Money Laundering under Article 209(2) CC BiH and Smuggling under Article 214(1) CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused to 2 (two) years of imprisonment, crediting the time he spent in pre-trial custody, from 13 July 2017 to 11 January 2018.

The Court also fined the accused with 50,000.00 (fiftythousand) BAM.

Pursuant to Article 123(3), as read with Article 126.b(5) CPC BiH, the Court has issued a Decision lifting the ban on meeting with specific individuals, imposed by Court of BiH Decision on 11 January 2018 and amended by Court’s Decision on 11 July 2018.

The accused has been found guilty that over a prolonged period of time, from 2011 to late 2017, in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he voluntarily became a member of a group for organized crime, which was organized for the purpose of continually acquiring ill-gotten gain, for the purpose of previously planned and agreed appropriation of expensive passenger motor vehicles or those whose demand on the market has been on the increase, extorting money for the return of the vehicles to their rightful owners, dismantling the stolen vehicles for spare parts, altering or destroying the identification marks on the dismantled parts, and then the selling of such dismantled parts, all with the intent to conceal the criminal offense, the perpetrators, the origin of objects and their rightful owners, and to smuggle and sell the stolen vehicles in the territory of Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro.