Nikšić's Basic State Prosecutor's Office proposed to the local court to send a Pakistani to pre-trial detention MR (18), arrested on suspicion of smuggling six people from India, Bangladesh, Egypt and Syria, including three minors.
This was announced by the Nikšić Public Prosecutor's Office, explaining that detention for the eighteen-year-old was proposed after questioning.
The Pakistani citizen was handcuffed by border police officers who, four days ago, spotted and checked seven people in the border zone, in the town of Kljakovica, near Lake Bileća.
"The State Prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Nikšić, after the hearing, issued a decision on detention and submitted a proposal for detention of a citizen of Pakistan of the Republic of Croatia due to reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of illegal crossing of the state border and human smuggling. There is reasonable suspicion that the suspect, for the purpose of gaining benefit, on January 1, 2026, enabled a group of ten foreign citizens to illegally cross the state border and on January 16, 2026, attempted to enable six foreign citizens, three of whom are minors, to cross the state border," the Nikšić State Prosecutor's Office announced.
Previously, the police announced that in addition to HR, they identified SH (36) and SG (39) from India, MY (26) from Bangladesh, two minors aged 15 and 16 from Egypt and a seventeen-year-old from Syria.
They also state that after collecting information and conducting criminal investigations, they determined that the Pakistani man, as suspected, waited for this group of migrants in the territory of Podgorica, with the intention of illegally transporting them to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, avoiding police controls and official border crossings, with the ultimate goal of arriving in Italy.
They also explained that HR was previously known to the police for illegally crossing the state border on January 1st.
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