Having held a hearing to deliberate on a guilty plea agreement and a sentencing hearing in the case of Danilo Cicović, the Court delivered, on 12 June 2025, a judgment based on the entered plea agreement, and found the accused Danilo Cicović guilty of the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) of the CC BiH, in connection with the criminal offenses of Aggravated Theft under the CC FBiH, Extortion under the CC FBiH and Money Laundering under the CC BiH.

The Court sentenced the accused for the committed criminal offenses to imprisonment for a term of three (3) years and eight (8) months, to which sentence the time the accused spent in custody will be credited, running from 5 April 2018 through 30 December 2019.  

The Court also fined the accused in the amount of 15,000.00 BAM. In addition, the proceeds of crime, in the amount of 17,235.00 BAM, were confiscated from the accused, who shall pay the referenced amount towards the BiH budget.

The accused has been found guilty, inter alia, because over a protracted time period, from 2011 through the end of 2017, in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he voluntarily became a member of a group for organized crime in terms of Article 1(22) of the CC BiH, which was organized for the purpose of continuous acquiring of property gain based on in advance planned and agreed: alienation of valuable passenger motor vehicles or vehicles whose demand on the market was increased; extortion of money for the return of vehicles to their owners; dismantling into parts of alienated vehicles, change or destruction of identification marks on dismantled parts, and their subsequent sale, all with the intent to conceal the criminal offense, perpetrators, origin of items and their genuine owners; as well as smuggling and sales of alienated vehicles in the territories of Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. Thus, the accused Danilo Cicović, along with other persons known to him, took part in alienation of vehicles in the territory of Canton Sarajevo, Canton Tuzla, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, West-Herzegovina Canton and in the wider area, in as much as, by using a previously alienated passenger motor vehicle, with false license plates mounted on it, they would visit parking lots, garages and other places where citizens used to park their vehicles, and after finding adequate passenger motor vehicles, they would start them on in the manner known to them, and in order to conceal the criminal offense, perpetrators, origin and their genuine owners, drove away and handed those vehicles to other members of the group, who would dismantle alienated vehicles in parts, or drove them away and handed them over to other members of the group for the purposes of their further sale, who would alone or along with them, upon prior agreements, further transfer alienated vehicles across the state border to Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia for the purpose of their further sale.