The new law allows the owners of illegally built buildings along Corridor 5C and the highways of Tuzla-Brčko-Orašje and Tuzla-Žepče, to seek remuneration if their buildings are knocked down.
The government The Republika Srpska (RS) has donated 14.5 million KM to media in the entity over the past three years, of which 3.9 million KM went to boost financing of five daily and weekly newspapers.
Since the last statement of assets Chairman and members of the Council of Ministers: Vjekoslav Bevanda, Nikola Špirić, Sredoje Nović and Mirko Okolić have acquired new properties and summer houses in Donje Blatnice, Drvar, Pale and Doboj, while Zlatko Lagumdžija reported ___unknown co-ownership” of the family home and land in Trebinje.
Tens of thousands of KM have been withdrawn from several veterans’ organization accounts in Sarajevo without ever accounting for the money. The FBiH Financial Police’s investigation into five veterans’ organizations and their two firms found that most of the money was spent for the material expenses, paying employees and fees to the members of the management and supervisory boards.
Čapljina-based HDZ and former municipal officeholders incorporated a private firm then they gave it land, public buildings and government funds. The municipality had to pay the owner of the expropriated land and is now considering litigation against the firm.
Some officeholders and entrepreneurs charged with financial fraud and money laundering use services of court-appointed lawyers because their assets are frozen. But, if they are acquitted and their assets returned, they still don’t pay. Courts pay their lawyers with taxpayers’ money.
Concessioners in the RS are selling concessions to build small hydroelectric power plants, and the government does little to stop them. Although businessmen claim that they sell for small amounts, the experts say that the profits from the deals top several times the amount of money invested.
Prosecutors take as long as five years to investigate workers’ complaints about management complicity in bankrupting companies and about crimes during the bankruptcy procedures. While they delay company assets are transferred to new owners, and workers are stripped of jobs, salaries and pensions.
Documents show that Energoinvest lost out on millions of KM because of the suspect way it went about trying to recover long-standing debts.
The RS government gave loans to businesses of the Zahumlje and Herzegovina Diocese. However, most of the businesses in which the church has ownership interests are producing losses, and some are behind in their workers contributions.
Police say factory was owned by alleged money launderer but farmers are caught in the middle.
The RS Special Prosecutor’s Office charged Bosnian-born Serbian businessman Zoran Ćopić with laundering money for reputed drug lord Darko Šarić. Other important names show up
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