The judge for preliminary proceedings of the Tuzla Municipal Court accepted the proposal of the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of the Tuzla Canton and ordered a one-month detention for Ana Maria Pranjić (42) from Tuzla due to the well-founded suspicion that she committed a prolonged criminal offense of fraud.
˝Pranjić is suspected of impersonating herself in seven cases between February and May 2026 in Tuzla and Živinice, leading people astray and thereby obtaining illegal financial gain using counterfeit euro banknotes. She approached those persons, presented herself as an acquaintance or relative of their neighbors or as a person who needed help due to a vehicle breakdown, and asked the injured parties to exchange euros for convertible marks, to which they agreed. On that occasion, using fake euro banknotes, she damaged these persons in individual amounts from 100 KM to 500 KM, said the spokesman of the TK Prosecutor’s Office, Admir Arnautović.
Investigators from the Tuzla Police Department and the Živinica Police Department conducted operative and investigative actions, identified the suspect, documented individual cases of fraud, and she was detained on May 7, 2026. After the criminal investigation, Pranjić was handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The acting prosecutor ordered the investigation and interrogated the suspect.
Ana Maria Pranjić has been convicted several times for criminal offenses against property.
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