Experts say the tender process to privatize BiH”s most important industrial plant is not transparent and is open to corruption. Odd requirements in the tender eliminate many of the best aluminum companies and a plan to have multiple rounds of bidding opens the process to manipulation.
Church, police and municipality officials share responsibility for keeping the thousands of pilgrims who come to BiH’s biggest tourist draw safe. They are saddened, but not alarmed that over the past six years, seven pilgrims have disappeared from Međugorje and two remain lost.
Trade in cattle across the borders of BiH is profitable enough to keep smugglers busy despite fears of disease and a contaminated food supply.
In the Northeast Bosnia villages of Popovi and Amajlije, cattle are smuggled across the nearby border from Serbia two or three times a week, according
For seven years, prosecutors got tips and information from outraged workers and former officials urging them to act against criminal activity within Elektrobosna. Federation financial police found that the complaints had merit. Yet, with the company now in financial collapse, no prosecutor ever went to court in the case.
A new chapter in the century long saga of Elektrobosna opened when a Bosnian businessman living in Germany wrestled control of the bankrupt company this year from the Croatian businessman financial police suspect tried to gut it. CIN looks at the power struggle that helped turn one of Bosnia”s brightest hopes into a financial disaster.
A list of major owners and creditors of Elektrobosna.
Before the war, Elektrobosna employees had plenty of safety equipment. Today, serious injuries can result from lack of items as inexpensive as a 10KM pair of work gloves.
An in-depth look at the investigations into how EFT does business. Despite having come under heavy international scrutiny, the firm and its charismatic owner have never been charged with any wrongdoing.
His former business partners do not talk about Vuk Hamović, and he refused to answer most questions about his life asked by the Center for Investigative Reporting. But records and interviews show much about Hamović’s remarkable rise, his business sense and flair which appeared early, and his ease associating with politicians and businessmen internationally.
A judge”s ruling may spell the end of more than 100 years of history for a Jajce firm, Elektrobosna, once a giant of Yugoslav manufacturing. Much of the firm”s assets will be sold at auction in April.
The financial police of the Federation of Bosnian-Herzegovina audited Elektrobosna and Elektrobosna-N at the request of state prosecutors, and in an administration report last year blamed 13 people for the company”s problems.
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