CAR THEFT Danilo Cicović sentenced to three years and eight months in prison, must also pay a fine of 15,000 KM

(Patria) - Following a hearing to consider the plea agreement and a hearing to consider the criminal-legal sanction in the case of Danilo Cicović, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 12.6.2025, rendered a verdict based on the concluded agreement, by which the accused Danilo Cicović was found guilty of committing the criminal offense of organized crime from Article 250, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in conjunction with the criminal offenses of aggravated theft from the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; extortion from the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and money laundering from the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

For the committed offenses, the Court imposed a prison sentence of three (3) years and eight (8) months on the accused, which includes the time spent in custody from April 5, 2018, to December 30, 2019.

As a secondary penalty, the Court imposed a fine of 15,000.00 KM on the accused. Simultaneously, the sum of 17,235.00 KM, obtained as property benefit from the commission of the criminal offense, was confiscated from the accused, which the accused is obliged to pay into the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused was found guilty, among other things, of voluntarily becoming a member of an organized crime group within the meaning of Article 1, Paragraph 22 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a longer period from 2011 to the end of 2017, in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was organized for the continuous acquisition of material benefits, and was organized for the previously planned and agreed-upon: theft of expensive passenger motor vehicles or those with increased market demand; extortion of money for the return of vehicles to their owners; dismantling of stolen vehicles into parts, altering or destroying identification marks on dismantled parts, and then selling such dismantled parts, all with the intention of concealing the criminal offense, perpetrators, origin of the items, and their rightful owners; as well as smuggling and selling stolen vehicles in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Croatia, and Montenegro.

The accused Danilo Cicović, along with other individuals known to him, participated in the theft of vehicles in the area of Sarajevo Canton, Tuzla Canton, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, West Herzegovina Canton, and wider, by using a previously stolen passenger motor vehicle, on which they had previously placed false license plates, they would patrol public parking spaces, garages, and other places where citizens parked their vehicles, and after finding suitable passenger motor vehicles, they would start them in a manner known to them, and in order to conceal the criminal offense, perpetrators, origin, and their rightful owners, they would transport and hand over the vehicles to other members of the group who would dismantle the stolen vehicles into parts, or for the further sale of the stolen vehicles, they would transport and hand them over to other members of the group, who, alone or together with them, according to prior agreement, would transport the stolen vehicles across the state border to the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Montenegro, and the Republic of Croatia for further sale.