On 10 June 2026 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed an Indictment in the Zdravko Šagolj case, charging the accused Zdravko Šagolj that, by the acts described in the Indictment, he committed the criminal offense of Organized Crime under Article 250(2) as read with the criminal offense of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs under Article 195(1) CC BiH.

The indictment inter alia alleges that Zdravko Šagolj joined an organized crime group, which was organized by B.P. together with D.M. with other persons known to them, in the period from October 2019 to late March 2021, on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, then on the territory of the European Union countries, namely Greece, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as Ecuador in South America, aware of the prohibition of their actions yet wanting to do so, with the aim of obtaining illegal property gain, who prepared and carried out the illicit trafficking of the narcotic drug cocaine, the international sale and transfer of narcotic drugs, by offering for sale, purchase and transport of narcotic drugs, and mediated in the international sale and purchase of the drug cocaine, which they purchased on the territory of Ecuador in South America, for its further resale in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and other EU countries, while using specially configured phones with installed Sky Ecc applications, designed for maintaining protected and encrypted communication.

It is further alleged that the accused Zdravko Šagolj joined the aforementioned organized crime group, and, as part of the group, he knowingly and intentionally had the role of coordinating and ensuring the safe passage of containers with fruit in which the narcotic drug cocaine was hidden, which were transported from Ecuador via the port of Piraeus in Greece to the port of Ploče in Croatia, and of connecting the organizers of the group and mediating between them and Z.E., a customs officer in the port of Ploče, whose role within the aforementioned group, as a customs officer for risk control in the port of Ploče during customs procedures in Croatia, was not to perform the duty of inspecting the containers that he was required to perform, with the aim of the narcotic drug being further transported to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina via companies for the apparent activity of trading in fruit and vegetables.