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.
In 2008, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina paid 219,900 KM for an Audi Q7 intended for then chairman Nikola Špirić. Five years later the car was sold for 34,218 KM. The following month a trial related to the car’s procurement is scheduled to open before the Basic Court in Brčko District. Defendants are charged with fraud and abuse of office.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Parliament adopted a motion by the parliamentary group of Social-Democratic Party of BiH to amend the FBiH Penal Code with provisions that would treat assault or battery on a journalist like that on an attack against a police officer or a public employee.
Even though the law defines that defendants should choose public defenders, in nearly half the cases judges in Bosnia and Herzegovina courts have done that instead of defendants.
After CIN’s investigation into legislative abuse, the FBiH Parliament’s House of Peoples introduced new rules for the use of living-away-from home and accommodation allowances in Sarajevo.
Republika Srpska cabinet minister Petar Đokić does not hold a B.A. degree from the University Of Belgrade School Of Economics. Instead, he has a double major in economics and management from a private business school Megatrend.
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