Indictment confirmed in Dragan Gajić et al.

24.11.2023, 14:28

On 7 November 2023 the Court confirmed the Indictment issued by the BiH Prosecutor's Office in the case of Dragan Gajić et al. (S1 2 K 046686 23 Ko), charging the accused Dragan Gajić, Blaženko Rašević, Žarko Joknić, Vlatko Blažević, Nikola Jovančić, Šaban Kudo and Selvedin Selimović with the following criminal offenses:

  • the accused Dragan Gajić – the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(3) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), in conjunction with the criminal offenses of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195(1) CC BiH, Giving Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 218(1) CC BiH, Accepting Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 217(1) CC BiH, and Arson under Article 302(1)CC FBiH;
  • the accused Blaženko Rašević, Žarko Joknić, Vlatko Blažević, Nikola Jovančić, Selvedin Selimović – the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) CC BiH, in conjunction with the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195(1) CC BiH;
  • the accused Vlatko Blažević – the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) CC BiH, in conjunction with the criminal offenses of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195(1) CC BiH, and Giving Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 218(1) CC BiH.
  • the accused Šaban Kudo – the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) CC BiH, in conjunction with the criminal offenses of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195(1) CC BiH, Giving Gifts and Other Forms of Benefit under Article 218(1) CC BiH, and the criminal offense of Illicit Possession of Weapons or Explosive Substances under Article 371(1) CC FBiH, all as read with Article 563 CC BiH.

 

The accused are charged that between 2019 and March 2023 they became members of a mutually connected and organized group of people, set up by Dragan Gajić and D.Đ. from Montenegro, and led by Dragan Gajić, which the accused Blaženko Rašević, Žarko Joknić, Vlatko Blažević, Nikola Jovančić, Šaban Kudo and Selvedin Selimović joined willingly and knowingly, which was organized for the purpose of obtaining ill-gotten gain by way of illicit international transport and trafficking of narcotic drugs, inter alia communicating through encrypted application SKY ECC, and in that context prepared and committed acts that in mutual connection of acts and consequences satisfy the elements of criminal offenses codified by the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by which the group members would obtain joint or individual ill-gotten gain in cash, material goods or other forms of benefit, in the way that, between 24 September 2019 and not later than 17 March 2023, after the accused Dragan Gajić as the group organizer has agreed on a price transport of narcotic drugs from Montenegro to BiH or Croatia, through direct or indirect contacts with persons from Montenegro known to him, as well as on the time, manner and place of narcotic drug handover, the group members Nikola Jovančić, I.M. or other group members from Montenegro known to them took over the narcotic drug at various locations in Montenegro, and, with the assistance of the accused Šaban Kudo as an officer of the BiH Border Police, transported the narcotic drugs to BiH across border crossings and illegal crossings, while other group members, including Blaženko Rašević, Vlatko Blažević, Selvedin Selimović and I.B, would wait for them in the vicinity of illegal border crossings in BiH and take over the narcotic drug, and transported it within BiH, all for the purpose of further transport, sale and storage in BiH, Croatia, Hungary and other EU countries.