Ten Turks Returned from Sarajevo Airport, Their ID Cards Confiscated

Members of the Border Police Unit Sarajevo Airport on December 17, 2014, denied entry into Bosnia and Herzegovina to ten citizens of the Republic of Turkey on a flight from Istanbul due to providing false information about the right to enter our country. Due to the committed offense under the Law on Movement and Stay of Foreigners and Asylum, the individuals were issued decisions on the reasons for denial of entry into BiH. Their ID cards were confiscated, and the foreign nationals were returned to their point of departure on the next flight, the Border Police of BiH announced, as reported by the Bosnian news agency Patria.

FROM THE REPORT

Police officers of the Border Police Unit Višegrad on December 18, 2014, after midnight, deprived of liberty a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, R. I. (1958), after border checks established that he was wanted by the Municipal Court Sarajevo for the criminal offense of "tax evasion." The individual was checked on a bus traveling on the route Novi Pazar – Sarajevo at the entrance to BiH at the International Border Crossing Uvac. R. I. will be handed over to officers of the Judicial Police of the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde for further proceedings.

Members of the Support and Control Unit of the Field Office Northeast Bijeljina, in cooperation with officers of the Indirect Taxation Authority of BiH, on December 17, 2014, prevented the illegal trade of 77 iPhones and Samsung mobile phones. They were discovered during a check of a bus with BiH national license plates in the border zone on the road Orašje – Lončari. The phones, which were hidden in a jacket placed on a seat, were temporarily confiscated, and further work on the case will be continued by officers of the ITA BiH.