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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Information exchange and law enforcement agencies

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Information exchange and law enforcement agencies. LEGISLATION AND PRACTICE Jinan, China, J une 2013. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA IN GENERAL. POPULATION: 4 377 000 (Census 1991.) Territory area-51129 km2 INTERNAL ORGANISATION: Federation BIH Republi ka Srpska

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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Information exchange and law enforcement agencies

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  1. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAInformation exchange and law enforcement agencies LEGISLATION AND PRACTICE Jinan, China, June 2013.

  2. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA IN GENERAL • POPULATION: • 4 377 000 (Census 1991.) • Territory area-51129 km2 • INTERNAL ORGANISATION: • Federation BIH • Republika Srpska • Brčko District

  3. JUDICAL SISTEM • BIH JUDICAL SYSTEM CONSISTS OF ENTITY AND BRČKO DISTRICT LEVEL AND STATE JUDICAL LEVEL. • JUDICAL SYSTEM AT THE STATE LEVEL INCLUDES THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH AND THE COURT OF BIH

  4. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAENTITY MAP

  5. Organized Crime - serious threat to security • OrganizedCrime, especially its most complex forms, criminal networks operating in several states, are a serious threat to security in the Western Balkans.

  6. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL GROUPS • A number of cases, in particular those related to criminal offences of Illegal immigrant and drug smuggling, revealed that perpetrators are international criminal groups that don’t even speak the same language (crime syndicates involved citizens of Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, BiH, Croatia).

  7. ORGANIZED CRIME RELATED DANGERS Drugs - danger for children and youth - the most vulnerablepopulation Illegal immigrant smuggling – danger to border securityand the reputation of our country abroad. Counterfeiting of Money – danger to financial and monetary system. Functioning Organized Criminal Groups – danger to public safetyi.e. safety of all citizens

  8. COMBATING ORGANIZED CRIME Throughout the past 10 years the Prosecutors of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office have detected and criminally prosecuted more than 10 organized criminal groups operating in all parts of BiH. The results are a number of rendered imprisonment sentences the total duration of which exceeds several dozen years, and forfeiture of proceeds of crime amounting to millions of BAM.

  9. INFORMATION EXCHANGE-PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS • Modalities of cooperation between police agencies and judicial institutions were developed in the recent years. • A number of Memorandums on Cooperation were concluded, direct communication channels and liaison officers set up. • In the last few operations carried out per order of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH a number of police agencies participated with several hundreds of police officers .

  10. COOPERATION WITH COUNTERPARTS • Considering the fact that BiH is surrounded by states who speak the same language and share a historical background, the cooperation with countries in the region was constantly strengthened • A number of joint police-prosecution operations were carried out simultaneously inseveral countries, resulting with the arrests of several dozens of persons and a number of raids conducted on multiple locations. • There are cases where one group of the accused was prosecuted in BiH and the othergroup in a neighboring state.

  11. REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION • The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH is intensively strengthening its cooperation with judicial and police agencies in the region and the rest of the world. • There are more and more cases involvingcriminal offenders from several different countries. • It is therefore necessary to maintain permanent contact and cooperationwith institutions such as Interpol, Europol, Eurojust etc.

  12. Financial Crime- danger to economic and monetary stability • From its inception the Prosecutor’s Office of BiHwas granted jurisdiction to detect and prosecute criminal offences of Money Laundering, Tax and Customs Fraud, as well as Failure to Pay Taxes.

  13. Criminal Offence of Money Laundering • These criminal offencesoccur when there exist efforts to “pump” the money generated through commission of a crime into legal financial flaw, most often through purchase of real estates, companies or vehicles

  14. Criminal Offences of Money Laundering • Criminal offences out of the economic related area are extremely dangerousbecause they undermine the economic stability of the state, and are particularly dangerous for post-conflict countries in transition

  15. Criminal Offence of Money Laundering • The Prosecutor’s Office of BiHhas detected cases of major manipulations and money laundering amounting to several million BAM. • We shall continue with such effortsin the future as well.

  16. How to fight organized and economic crime? This particular fight requires activities from all structures of authority i.e. judicial and police institutions, legislative and executive authorities. There are many tasks and obligations on our path to EU that relate to strengthening of police and judicial mechanisms to combat organized crime, because Europe wants its future member countries to be safe countries with the established rule of law that shall be above politics or individuals.

  17. Fight against organized crime- future strategic directions • Police and Judicial agencies equipped with modern technical equipment for crime detection • Harmonization of legislation ensuring that it keeps track of institutions combating crime

  18. Fight against organized and economic crime- future strategic directions • Hiring young experts to fight sophisticated forms of crime • Hiring economic experts and investigators to detect economic crimes.

  19. Fight against organized and economic crime- future strategic directions • JoiningEuropean judicial and police associations EUROPOL and EUROJUST andusing quality analytic data bases. -Development of analytic crime-intelligence data base in BiH

  20. Fight against organized and economic crime- future strategic directions • Develop cooperationwith police and judiciary of the countries in the region. • Develop cooperationwith international associations combating crime

  21. Fight against organized and economic crime- future strategic directions Improvement of technical resources available for the work of police and prosecutors Strengthening of specific capacities in police and judiciary Increase of human resources Better cooperation with regionaland international law enforcement agencies

  22. Thank you foryour attention! • Goran Salihović • Chief Prosecutor • Prosecutor’s Office of BiH • Kraljice Jelene 88 • 71 000 Sarajevo • Bosna i Hercegovina • +387 33 707 400 • info@tuzilastvobih.gov.ba • www.tuzilastvobih.gov.ba

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