BiH Prosecutor's Office motion for detention of Željko Stekić

(Patria) - The acting prosecutor of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic
Crime and Corruption, after the examination, sent a motion for the determination of detention for the suspect Željko Stekić, born in 1969 in Šabac, a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, who was apprehended in an operation by the RS MoI police, upon the order of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.     

The suspect is under investigation due to the existence of a founded suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of unauthorized trafficking of narcotic drugs under Article 195, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of BiH.

The suspect is accused of internationally smuggling 525 grams of the narcotic drug "cocaine" from the Republic of Serbia into the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 01/09/2023, an act which was prevented by members of the RS MoI in the area of Zvornik, at which time this narcotic drug, hidden in a compartment of the vehicle driven by the suspect, was temporarily seized.

The measure of detention has been proposed due to the reasons described in Article 132, Paragraph 1, points a), namely due to the risk of flight, given that the suspect is a citizen of the Republic of Serbia and has no residence or domicile in BiH, and also considering the gravity of the criminal offense he is suspected of, and the prescribed penalty of at least 3 years imprisonment.