Having held an open trial in the case of Goran Aleksandar Subotić et al., on 27 December 2024 the Court delivered and pronounced a Trial Judgment, finding the accused Goran Aleksandar Subotić and Josip Skoko guilty as accomplices, for they committed the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3) as read with Paragraph 1, of the CC BiH, in conjunction with Article 29 of the Code, while the accused legal entity “Halilović International” d.o.o. Tuzla was found responsible for the criminal offense of Money Laundering under Article 209(3), as read with Paragraph 1, of the CC BiH, in conjunction with Article 124 of the Code.

The Court sentenced the accused Goran Aleksandar Subotić to 2 (two) years of imprisonment, and the accused Josip Skoko to 4 (four) years of imprisonment.

At the same time, the Court fined the accused legal entity “Halilović International” d.o.o. Tuzla with 100,000.00 BAM (one hundred thousand convertible marks), which the accused legal entity must pay within 6 (six) months of the day when the Judgment becomes final.

The accused were found guilty that between 4 March 2019 and 11 March 2019, together and under a previous arrangement, with the intent to cover up the real source and nature of money they knew was ill-gotten abroad (USA) in the total amount of 473,047.21 BAM, with the aim of appropriating the money for themselves and putting it into legal circulation in BiH, they repeatedly transferred the money to different bank accounts of individuals in Croatia and BiH, by way of the “Halilović International” company d.o.o. Tuzla, which has attempted, as a legal entity, to have at their disposal the ill-gotten gain in the total amount of 407,918.88 BAM, which in the name and in the interest thereof has been obtained by the accused Goran Aleksandar Subotić and Josip Skoko.