The Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office in Tuzla requested the detention of suspects for the criminal offenses of human trafficking in connection with the exploitation of two minor girls, born in 2009, for the purpose of prostitution. Among the suspects are four officers of the Police Department of the MUP of TK.
It should be noted that the measure of custody was proposed for police officers: Besim Kopić (51), Miralem Halilović (46), Jasmin Modrić (30) and Dževad Požegić (55), and for Šemsudin Kadrić (39), Zijad Jagodić (61) – also a professor, Sulejman Šehić (67) and Nedim Avdić (41).
Pedophiles paid 150 KM
According to gruesome details leaked to the public, pedophiles paid suspects a minimum of 150 marks for sexual abuse of girls. Source Srpskainfo found out that the amounts were much higher.
Otherwise, Kopić, Kadrić, Halilović, Modrić and Šehić are suspected of having recruited, led, transported to different locations in the area of Kalesija, Živinice and Srebrenik, handed over and hid two fifteen-year-old girls for the purpose of exploitation through prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, and they also used their sexual services for which they were paid.
“Part of the money from sexual services, which the girls were forced to have with other people, was taken by the first suspect, Besim Kopić. Jagodić, Požegić and Avdić are suspected of using their sexual services and paying them for it during the mentioned period, even though they were aware that the girls were minors and victims of human trafficking. These are two girls whose development was hampered by difficult family circumstances and who were housed in social institutions in the Tuzla area, as and the shelter of the Home for Children without Parental Care in Tuzla, from where they ran away several times and were returned by police officers and centers for social work.
The suspects took advantage of their escape from the institutions and their state of helplessness in order to recruit them and lead them into prostitution and use their sexual services,” the Tuzla Canton Prosecutor’s Office announced yesterday.
Human trafficking
It was reported that the Prosecutor’s Office of the Tuzla Canton, in cooperation with the investigators of the Criminal Police Sector-Department for Combating Organized and Computer Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, conducted several months of investigation and worked on documenting these crimes.
“Yesterday, after searches were carried out at several locations in Kalesija, Živinice and Banovići, the suspects were deprived of their liberty. Criminal proceedings were carried out against them and they were handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office with a report on the crime committed. For the criminal offense of “Trafficking in Human Beings” from Article 210a paragraph 2 of the FBiH Criminal Code (who recruits, leads, transports, delivers, hides or receives a person under the age of 18 for the purpose of exploitation through prostitution or another form of sexual exploitation) is prevented by a prison sentence of at least 10 years. The Prosecutor’s Office of Tuzla Canton continues its investigation in this case”, the statement concluded.
