The Municipal Court in Široki Brijeg has issued a first-instance judgment ordering the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) to pay damages to the company Lager for defamation related to the allegations presented in texts by Žurnal. In three months, Široki Brijeg courts have delivered three verdicts in favor of the company from Posušje against various media outlets.
The former mayor of the Stari Grad Municipality in Sarajevo began investing in real estate in Bosnia and Croatia after leasing public parking lots to his friend Elmedin Karišik. Correspondence on the Sky app reveals that Karišik looked after Hadžibajrić’s properties, his money, and luxury cars.
Former mayor of Sarajevo’s oldest municipality, Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, leased several public car parks in the tourist center of the city to his friends, striking deals that would render his son a millionaire.
Sarajevo policemen work without protection while expensive body armor collects dust in a warehouse. This is the outcome of a public procurement worth BAM 861 thousand, in which neither the police administration nor the vendor did a good job.
Ramo Isak, the FBiH Minister of Internal Affairs, and his family own two companies and 15 real estate properties in Zenica and Sarajevo. More than half of these properties were acquired in the past six years.
The Minister of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Edin Forto, has been receiving a salary from public institutions’ budgets for the past decade. Although his earnings have increased over the years, he has not invested money in real estate. He lives with his family in an apartment inherited from his parents.
While the former director of Bosnalijek Edin Arslanagićs assets in BiH was blocked, his son Vedad Arslanagić sold a seven-room villa in the upscale neighborhood of Atlanta, USA.
The path to indemnification of damages caused by a notarial error is an uncertain one. Proving is difficult, and even when clients succeed, notaries look for ways to avoid payment.
At least six notaries in BiH were convicted in the past seven years for misconduct in public office, falsification of documents, and endangering security. Based on the verdicts, which are not yet final, two notaries got out of the service.
The Zenica-Doboj Canton favored the company Adriatic Metals, awarding them concessions in Vareš thus depriving the budget of nearly five million marks. In return, illegal stone mining and road reconstruction left the locals with a devastated picnic area and stream.
Multiple scams involving fake biofuels have erupted in northern Europe in recent years. A new investigation shows several cases were linked by a Bosnian company that sold thousands of tons of fraudulent fuel across the European Union.
Aparthotel Vučko in Jahorina has been keeping a “parallel ledger” to hide the real income from apartment rentals and restaurant operations, thus avoiding paying tax and tourist tax for guests.
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