Trial Judgment in Goran Nižić case

30.01.2023, 12:47

In the case of Goran Nižić (severed from the case of Danilo Cicović et al.), having held a guilty plea agreement consideration hearing and a sentencing hearing, on 27 January 2023 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered and pronounced a Judgment finding the accused Goran Nižić guilty of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as read with the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Articles 209(1) and 54 of the CC BiH, and in conjunction with the criminal offense of Smuggling under Article 214(1) CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused to one (1) year and one (1) month of imprisonment, and fined him with 20,000.00 BAM (twenty thousand BAM). The time the accused spent in pre-trial custody, from 20 February 2017 to 17 August 2017, shall be credited towards his sentence of imprisonment.

 

The ill-gotten gain in the amount of 20,000.00 BAM and the instrumentalities previously seized from the accused shall be confiscated.

 

The accused Goran Nižić has been found guilty that, as a member of a group for organized crime, by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment, he kept, disposed with, transferred and in other manner concealed the nature, origin, movement and ownership of the property he knew had been obtained by the commission of a criminal offense of Aggravated Theft, such property being obtained by the commission of this criminal offense in the territory of both Entities, carried across the customs line goods of considerable value while evading customs control.