Second-Instance Judgment in the Case of Sulejman Berisa et al. delivered

On 23 November 2018, Appellate Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) delivered a second-instance judgment in the case of Sulejman Beriša et al., dismissing as ill-founded the appeal filed by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and upholding the first-instance judgment of the Court of BiH of 9 July 2018.

Under the first-instance judgment of the Court of BiH, the accused Sulejman Beriša, Mersudin Mešković, Saša Pešić and Mirko Ateljević were acquitted of the following charges: Sulejman Beriša, the criminal offense of Organized Crime punishable under Article 250 Paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code of BiH (CC BiH) in conjunction with the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs punishable under Article 195 Paragraph 1 of the CC BiH; Mersudin Mešković, Saša Pešić and Mirko Ateljević, the criminal offense of Organized Crime punishable under Article 250 Paragraph 2 of the CC BiH in conjunction with the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs punishable under Article 195 Paragraph 1 of the CC BiH.