On 26 November 2024 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the Indictment in the case of Semko Ćosatović et al. (S1 2 K 044101 24 Ko), which charges the accused Semko Ćosatović, Kenan Berberović, Elvedin Maslo, Samir Ičanović, Haris Hećo and Aleksandar Batić that by the acts described in the Indictment they committed the criminal offenses as follows: Semko Ćosatović, Kenan Berberović and Elvedin Maslo – the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), as read with the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209 CC BiH; Elvedin Maslo – the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(1) as read with Articles 29 and 54 CC BiH; and Samir Ičanović, Haris Hećo and Aleksandar Batić – the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) as read with Paragraph 1, of the CC BiH, all in conjunction with Articles 29 and 54 CC BiH, in the manner specified in the factual part of the Indictment.

The accused are, inter alia, charged that, between 2016 and 2023, E.O. organized a criminal group in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose members knowingly became Semko Ćosatović, Kenan Berberović and Elvedin Maslo, with strictly assigned roles allocated to them by E.O., so that, as members of such an organized group, during the period of their operation, by establishing and maintaining mutual contacts and arrangements, and contacts with other persons and individually, they organized, prepared and carried out the plan to have the money they knew was ill-gotten, at their disposal, for conversion or transfer, with the aim of enabling the obtaining of ill-gotten gain for its members, by transferring and converting the ill-gotten money through fictitious legal entities in Slovenia and BiH. It is further said that they then transferred thus obtained ill-gotten money from the accounts of legal entities in Slovenia to the accounts of fictitious companies in BiH. Then, with the aim of covering up the nature, source and origin of the money, they repeatedly withdrew the same money from bank accounts in Slovenia, in multi-million amounts, using business bank cards.

Between August 2016 and July 2020, E.O. hired BH citizens Elvedin Maslo, Samir Ičanović, Haris Hećo and Aleksandar Baltić to register to their own names the representation and ownership of legal entities in Slovenia, and open branch offices in BiH, after which they would open accounts in BiH banks, with the aim of covering up the nature, source and origin of the money, in pursuance of their ultimate goal to obtain ill-gotten gain.