SIPA Operation: Ukrainian Smuggled Migrants

(Patria) - Police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) in Prozor-Rama apprehended one person, a citizen of Ukraine, on grounds of suspicion of committing the criminal offense of human smuggling.

"Acting on the order of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SIPA police officers, in cooperation with police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, searched the suspect and the passenger motor vehicle he was driving, and during the search, discovered eight smuggled persons who were found to be citizens of the Islamic Republics of Afghanistan and Pakistan."

In accordance with Article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the aforementioned passenger motor vehicle, for which there are grounds to suspect it was used in organizing the transport of migrants, as well as other items that will serve as evidence in further criminal proceedings, have been temporarily seized. The suspect has been brought to SIPA premises and is undergoing criminal processing, after which, in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he will be handed over to the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina with an appropriate report," SIPA stated.