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.
Seven years ago attorney Marica Ćulum was sentenced on organized crime charges and should have been debarred. Instead, she’s the most highly paid court-appointed attorney before the Basic Court in Banja Luka.
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.
More than ten million KM has been invested into the digitalization of health care in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet, patients in some public health care clinics are still waiting to see its benefits.
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.
Veteran legislator Milica Marković received a five-room apartment in Bijeljina that was paid with fuel oil from stockholding supplies. Even though the entity government was giving away flats to senior officials at the time, Marković did not follow the legal procedure. Another plan was hatched to serve her.
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 co-op First Veterans Fruits of Bosnia got at least 65,000 KM from the budget as an incentive to hire former servicemen. The money was spent but the hiring goals never met.
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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