Indictment filed against Senad Koštić for joining foreign paramilitary formations in Syria

The Prosecutor from the Department for Terrorism of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption filed an indictment against Koštić Senad, born on 22.10.1993 in Velika Kladuša, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused is charged with devising a plan and obtaining funds with the aim of traveling to Syria and joining paramilitary and paramilitary police forces operating in Syria and Iraq within the structures of ISIL, which was declared a terrorist organization by the UN Security Council.

The accused is charged that, at the beginning of 2016, he traveled to Sarajevo, and then to Podgorica, from where he traveled by plane to the Republic of Turkey, with the aim of illegally crossing into Syria from Turkey, but due to timely action by police and security institutions, he was discovered and prevented in this intention, deprived of liberty by the border police and security authorities of the Republic of Turkey, and returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused is charged with attempting to join a foreign paramilitary or paramilitary police formation operating outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thereby committing the criminal offense of illegal formation and joining of foreign paramilitary or paramilitary police formations under Article 162b, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This indictment represents a continuation of the prosecutor's office and partner agencies' activities in the fight against terrorism and criminal offenses related to terrorism. The prosecution will prove the guilt of the accused by calling 9 prosecution witnesses and submitting approximately 20 pieces of evidence.

The indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.