On 13 December 2022, having held a hearing for deliberation on the plea agreement and hearing for the pronouncement of the criminal sanction in Tomislav Petrović case (S1 2 K 043868 22 K), the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rendered and publicly announced a Trial Judgment finding the Accused Tomislav Petrović guilty of the following: that with the acts described in the enacting clause of the Judgment he committed the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC B-H), as read with the criminal offense of Aggravated Theft under Article 287(1)(a) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC FB-H), as read with Article 55 of the CC FB-H, as read with the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(2) of the CC B-H and as read with the criminal offense of Extortion under Article 295(1) of the CC FB-H. The Court imposed on the Accused a sentence of imprisonment for the term of one (1) year and one (1) month. The Court imposed on the Accused a fine in the amount of 50,000.00 KM (convertible mark), as an accessory punishment, which he must pay within 6 (six) months from the day the Judgment becomes final. Pursuant to Articles 110 and 111 of the CC B-H, property gain resulting from the proceeds of crime in the amount of 2,200.00 euro shall be confiscated from the Accused Tomislav Petrović.
The Accused was, inter alia, found guilty of the following: that in a prolonged period, from 2011 to late 2017, in the territory of B-H, he voluntarily became a member of a group for organized crime pursuant to Article 1(22) of the CC B-H, which was organized with the aim of continuously acquiring material gain by way of preplanned and prearranged misappropriation of luxurious passenger motor vehicles or the vehicles for which there was an increased demand on the market; extortion of money for the return of the vehicles to their owners; disassembling of the misappropriated vehicles into components, modifying or destroying the identification marks on the disassembled components and subsequent sale of such components, all with the aim of covering up the criminal act, perpetrators, origin of the items and their proper owners; and smuggling and sale of the misappropriated vehicles in the Republic of Serbia, Republic of Croatia and Montenegro.
Under the decision of the Court dated 8 September 2022 in Danilo Cicović et al. case (S1 2 K 028774 18 K), the proceedings against the Accused Tomislav Petrović were severed because of the plea agreement entered into between the Accused Tomislav Petrović and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.