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The award went for an investigation into the financing of veterans’ associations in BiH.
Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)
16.7.2019
The award went for an investigation into the financing of veterans’ associations in BiH.
The state Court of Appeals granted appeal to Jerko Ivanković Lijanović, former FBiH Minister of Agriculture, Waterworks and Forestry, who had been convicted on organized crime and money laundering charges.
Former FBiH President Živko Budimir is acquitted of charges for abuse of office, receiving gifts and illegal interceding during hiring procedure.
The Supreme Court of Republika Srpska denied Milica Marković the right of ownership over a five-room condo in Bijeljina that was paid with fuel oil from stockholding supplies outside the procedure. CIN reported the story at the end of last year.
Ramo Brkić, former police commissionaire of Una-Sana Canton, was arrested in Slovenia after being at large for three years. He fled the country after the Court of BiH sentenced him to 11 years in prison for production and trade in narcotics and the abuse of office and other corruption charges.
The competition organized by Montenegrin foundation Duško Jovanović attracted 29 regional entries. A story about the illegal activities of Sarajevo judges, lawyers and court staffers to take possession of abandoned condos and houses in Sarajevo has won the first prize.
Representatives from judiciary, international community and human rights institutions agreed that the judiciary ought to be more transparent and disclose property of judges and prosecutors.
Even though the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo based its reporting about My Clinic and General Hospital on the institutions’ official documents, the Municipal Court in Sarajevo handed down a ruling stating that these records were not trustworthy.
Municipal Court in Zenica approved indictment against Senaid Begić, the FBiH legislator and a former director of Zenica-Doboj Canton Health Care Fund and Omer Avdaković, the head of Fund’s finances, on charges of abuse of office and fraud in office. CIN has already written about it.
Bosnia and Herzegovina slipped down one rank on World Press Freedom Index.
Prosecutors filed an indictment against the chairman of Una Sana Canton Assembly on charges of the abuse of office and forging of official document during his mayoral term in Bužim.
Ibrahim Mujić, one of advisers to the mayor of Velika Kladuša has been convicted, pending appeal, of abuse of office.
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