Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) in the Sarajevo Canton and Central Bosnia Canton, as part of Operation ‘Dawn’, are conducting searches of homes at six locations for drug trafficking and undeclared goods, SIPA announced.
As stated in the statement, members of the organized crime group have been taking possession of stolen or concealed vehicles in the European Union since November 2024, and transporting them across the state border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, avoiding paying customs duties. After the vehicle arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, they obtained identification data for vehicles with the same or similar characteristics and equipment, and then using the obtained identities, they altered the identification data on the vehicles in question, and then forged customs documentation and registered them as such with the competent authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and made such vehicles available to themselves and other persons for daily use and further sale.
The members of the group were actively involved in the trafficking of narcotics, weapons and military equipment, from which they obtained illegal material gain in the form of money or other valuable movable property.
The operation is being carried out in cooperation with police officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sarajevo Canton, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central Bosnia Canton, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton and the Indirect Taxation Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The searches are being carried out by order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
