For years, the RS Council of Peoples had violated the law and the Constitution by issuing a resolution that made certain officials eligible for a payout. After a CIN reporter exposed those illegalities, the RS Constitutional Court abolished the perk.
Those sentenced to short prison sentences in BiH can buy their way out. Corrupt officials and others have been quick to do this then return to jobs where they broke the law in the first place.
Stjepan Dujo was appointed assistant to the director of BiH Legislative Office despite failing to meet the criteria about required years of experience. Lidija Bradara, former chairwoman of the House of Peoples in the Federation of BiH Parliament, previously illegally appointed Dujo as her aide. Both belong to Croatian Democratic Party.
A job ad for an attorney general in Jablanica Municipality attracted seven candidates who all formally met the criteria. Yet, after commission members rated each candidate’s abilities and knowledge in an obscure manner, they chose their colleague’s daughter.
The Republika Srpska is borrowing millions to decrease the number of RS Railways workers. At the same time the company keeps jobs for employees who don’t even show up for work.
Mirza Ganić might be in a conflict of interest, serving as both director of the Zenica division of the public company BH Telecom, and as a legislator in the Federation of BiH House of Representatives. No agency in the entity can establish if those two positions are officially incompatible.
For years, HT Eronet and BH Telecom have hired members of governing parties and relatives of employees without advertising jobs. FBiH looked the other way, which meant that most citizens did not get equal employment opportunities.
BH Telecom’s officials tried to whitewash the debt that arouse from supplying a Kakanj-based Trafik with top-ups for cell phones. It will be hard to recover a debt of 1.2 million KM because that firm is in bankruptcy and the owner has no money.
Sarajevo-based BH Telecom invested at least 35.8 million KM in a downtown office building, then left staff working in other buildings it still paid rent on.
The Tuzla Canton Alliance of Demobilized Soldiers misspent budget money for nearly a decade. Government officials knew this, but did not stop financing the alliance.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament has spent around 2.1 million KM on rent, living expenses and transport allowances for representatives. Most do not live in the apartments Parliament pays for. They let other people use them.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament has spent around 2.1 million KM on rent, living expenses and transport allowances for representatives. Most do not live in the apartments Parliament pays for. They let other people use them.
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