Muhamed Sacirbey

Muhamed Sacirbey is a famous Attorney At Law, born on July 20, 1956 in Bosnia And Herzegovina. As of January 9, 2023, Muhamed Sacirbey’s net worth is $5 Million. In 1963, the family left SFY Yugoslavia due to his father’s and mother’s anti-communist politics (both had spent time in prison for their activities) and lived for a while in Turkey and Libya before settling in the United States in 1967. The Šaćirbegović family lived in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and became naturalized citizens in 1973. It was at this point that the family name was changed to Sacirbey. Sacirbey attended Valley Forge High School in Parma Heights, Ohio. “Mo” was elected student council representative even before he became U.S. citizen, became a highly acclaimed football player as well as academically recognized – he was accepted to Harvard among other highly acclaimed universities.

Muhamed “Mo” Sacirbey (born July 20, 1956), born as Muhamed Šaćirbegović, is a Bosnian-American lawyer, businessman, and diplomat. He rose to prominence in the 1990s when Bosnia and Herzegovina appointed him to be their ambassador to the United Nations. Sacirbey also served briefly as the 3rd and last Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After the war, Sacirbey continued to serve as ambassador to the UN until late 2000. Upon leaving this position, rumors of financial irregularities in the BiH UN mission began to circulate. In 2001, the BiH government began to investigate Sacirbey on suspicion “of abuse of office” for purportedly expending funds for purposes not authorized including Bosnia’s “genocide case” against Serbia/Montenegro before the International Court of Justice.

Sacirbey denied allegations of any improper use of funds and said the entire affair was fabricated by political opponents in Bosnia and the United States. He also stated he spent up to $800,000 of his own money to cover Bosnia’s diplomatic expenses. Although there was no indictment, formal charges or even formal investigation, on January 29, 2002, the BiH government formally asked the US to extradite Sacirbey. Sacirbey had offered to deliver himself should such be requested. However, he was arrested on March 25, 2003 at his home in Staten Island. Sacirbey spent the next sixteen months at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. He was released on July 27, 2004 with a six-million-dollar bail, and the recommendation of the Bosnian Prime Minister who referred to Sacirbey as “an honorable person”, whether or not allegations of abuse of office may have been accurate.

Sacirbey from the outset contended that the U.S. Government was dictating the extradition request upon obedient Bosnian authorities, including misrepresenting the status of any “investigation” in Bosnia or alleged abuse of office. On January 19, 2005, he was certified by a federal magistrate in New York as extraditable. Sacirbey appealed his certification by filing a habeas corpus petition on March 21, 2005 before a federal district judge. In September 2006, the district judge denied his petition for habeas corpus relief and ruled that he was extraditable. Sacirbey appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.