Today, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina handed down the verdict in the case “Miroslav Pajić and others”, which refers to the commission of several criminal acts: organized crime, serious theft and smuggling, extortion, etc.
The Court of BiH in the mentioned case, after the hearing for the consideration of the plea agreement and the hearing for the imposition of the criminal sanction, issued and publicly announced the verdict.
The verdict found the defendants Miroslav Pajić and Sreto Pajić guilty of having committed the criminal offense of organized crime in the manner described in the sentence of the verdict, in connection with the crime of smuggling, the crime of aggravated theft, extortion and other criminal acts specified in the sentence of the verdict.
The court sentenced the accused Miroslav Pajić to six years in prison. The time spent in detention, in the period from 5/27/2017, is included in the sentence imposed on the accused. until 27.11.2017. and from 3.7.2018. until 30.12.2019.
As a side effect, the court imposed a fine on Pajić in the amount of 40,000 BAM, which the accused is obliged to pay within one year from the date of finality of the verdict.
The court sentenced the accused Sreto Pajić to a prison sentence of four years and six months, which includes the time spent in custody and extradition custody, from February 27, 2017. until August 23, 2017, and in the period from April 1, 2022. and so on.
As a side effect, the court sentenced the accused Sreta Pajić to a fine in the amount of 32,000 BAM which the accused is obliged to pay within one year from the date of finality of the verdict.
Furthermore, the court issued a decision extending the travel ban on the accused Miroslav Pajić. By the same decision, the custody measure was lifted against the accused Sreto Pajić, and the travel ban was imposed at the same time. However, the measure prohibiting the accused Sreto Pajić from meeting with certain persons was lifted.
The defendants were warned that the court may order them to be detained if they violate any of the imposed prohibition measures. Pronounced prohibition measures can last as long as there is a need for them or until the accused are sent to prison.
In the “Volan” case, 27 people were charged
We will remind you, we are talking about those arrested in the operation “Volan”, which was carried out in 2018. The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment for 27 defendants in this case also in 2018, and the court confirmed it shortly after it was filed.
The accused members of an organized criminal group come from both Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entity of RS, and the investigation in this case was conducted for a long period of time in cooperation with the police officers of SIPA, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RS, and the police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton and the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina made a special contribution in conducting the investigation and gathering evidence.
During the investigation, evidence was collected that the defendants acted according to precisely established and divided roles and tasks in the structures of the so-called automafia, and for a long period of time, mostly at night, using special tools and accessories, armed and masked, using radio stations tuned to police frequencies, in order to monitor the movements of the police, they committed thefts of high-value passenger motor vehicles, most often in the area of Canton Sarajevo, East Sarajevo, Tuzla Canton and Western Herzegovina, and according to the collected evidence committed the theft of at least 200 vehicles, the market value of which reaches several million BAM.
After the theft, the vehicles were hidden in prepared hidden locations in the area of Sarajevo, Lukavica, Pale, Sokolac and other places, after which the owners of the vehicles were contacted, from whom the ransom would be extorted, and if this was not realized, the documents were falsified and the smuggling and further sale of vehicles in BiH or countries of the region or their disassembly and sale in parts.
The indictment describes in detail the execution of car thefts, attempted ransoms and other illegal actions in more than 200 individual cases, which are charged to the accused.
In this way, great damage was caused to BiH citizens who are owners of stolen vehicles, and who were damaged for large amounts, as well as damage to legal entities that deal with vehicle and property insurance, Klix.ba reports.
