The border between BiH and Serbia is not an obstacle for criminals, but an opportunity for profit from smuggling narcotics, stolen cars or livestock in whichand law enforcement members take part.
The Institutions, private firms and individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia have been receiving the awards from Oxford-based European Business Assembly (EBA) for years. The awards are pitched as outstanding results achieved in a prestigious competition. However, the reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo and Belgrade (CIN/CINS) found that lucrative business is behind awards ceremonies.
The owners of stolen cars found at the scrap yard of Mate Šimić, are waiting for years to be informed about the fate of their cars. The court has ordered the stolen cars to be returned to a scrap yard where they were seized.
Disgraced Irish banker Michael Fingleton is facing a criminal investigation for a deal involving purchase of a hotel in the medieval town of Kotor, Montenegro.
Federation Vice-Prime Minister Lijanović gave out budget money earmarked for emergencies and unplanned costs to members of his People’s Party Work for Betterment.
Sarajevo Canton has given employment loans to firms for years, but some spent the money without employing anyone. Employment Bureau officials say that these programs aren’t going to be repeated soon. However, the combined debt of the firms to the Canton taxpayers to date is 2.5 million KM.
Naser Kelmendi has acquired property worth 6 million KM on a salary that averaged 360 KM a month and a number of money-losing firms in Sarajevo.
Employees of two weapons factories in BiH say that their directors ordered them to violate safety rules for disassembling and transporting explosive devices. Binas in Bugojno is storing some 221,000 explosive devices in warehouses, some in very bad condition.
FBiH President Živko Budimir violated the law by clearing the criminal records of three people who already had won pardons.
A year and a half after a Bugojno firm, Binas, received government money to destroy explosive devices, dozens of tons were found in its warehouses.
Mate Šimić, a car dealer from Grude, was arrested again after the BiH Prosecutor’s Office changed a prosecutor on the case under the police pressure.
During the seven years he was at the top of Indirect Taxation Authority, Kemal Čaušević bought nine apartments and offices plus 20,000 square meters of land. His income during that time does not come close to the cost of the investment, but he told reports that he’s been making money since 1986.
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