Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) yesterday, as part of the international operational action “ATM”, in the area of Sarajevo and Zenica, carried out searches of business and residential buildings and movable property in 14 locations and arrested eight people.
As stated in SIPA’s official statement, eight persons were arrested due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they had committed the crimes of “Organized Crime” and “Money Laundering” prescribed by the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
They were taken to the premises of SIPA, for criminal processing and questioning as suspects.
During the search, a certain amount of business and bank documentation, computers, and other items that can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings were discovered and temporarily confiscated.
Also, through the banks, the accounts and safes of the suspected persons were checked, during which a temporary suspension of transactions in the amount of 69.024.36 BAM was carried out.
The international operational action is the result of the work of the Joint Investigation Team of SIPA and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and the Specialised Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the Police of the Republic of Slovenia.
In the time period from October 2016 to February 2023, money laundering in the amount of over 7.4 million BAM was carried out in the territory of BiH, obtained through criminal acts committed to the detriment of a large number of legal entities from Slovenia, Klix.ba reports.
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