Following the completion of the main trial in the case of Adis Abaz, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina handed down today, 21 February 2022, a judgment finding the accused Adis Abaz guilty of commission of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(3) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), in connection with the criminal offense of Illicit Trade in Excise Products under Article 195(1) of the CC BiH. The Court imposed on the accused a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 6 (six) years.

The accused Adis Abaz is found guilty because, during the period between the first half of 2018 and mid-August 2018, along with Deni Stanišić, Admir Mahmutagić, Sumedin Topčagić and Zlatan Jure, he joined an organized criminal group he had founded. The group was organized for the purpose of illicit international trade, transfer, transport, mediation in further international trade, import, export, shipment and delivery of the narcotic drug „marihuana – cannabis“ and „amphetamines“. The referenced drugs were proclaimed narcotic drugs under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the Decision on the List of Narcotic Drugs ("Official Gazette of the  R BiH", No. 2/92 and 13/94), wherefore trading in these substances can only be performed on the basis of licenses issued by the relevant body pursuant to the Law on Production and Trading in Narcotic Drugs, whose trade is prohibited under the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Suppression of the Abuse of Narcotic Drugs, specifically from the BiH territory to the West Europe countries.

The time the accused spent in pretrial custody, running from 20 January 2020 to 18 May 2020 was credited towards the imposed prison sentence. The accused Adis Abaz also received the security measure of confiscation of instrumentalities.

In addition, the Court issued a decision lifting the prohibitive measures-ban on leaving the place of residence imposed on the accused Adis Abaz pursuant to Article 126(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code of BiH (CPC BiH), and the mandatory reporting to the relevant state authority pursuant to Article 126.a (1) d) of the CPC BiH) under the decision of the Court of BiH of 18 May 2020. The prohibitive measure-travel ban imposed on the accused pursuant to Article 126(2) of the CPC BiH under the same decision was extended. The referenced measures will stay in force as long as necessary, but no longer than the finality of a judgment, if the person did not receive a prison sentence, namely until the accused’s committal to serve a prison sentence if he was sentenced to imprisonment.