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
Thanks to millions in loans from banks connected to the RS government, the family of entity President Milorad Dodik has acquired property worth 9.6 million KM. In the two years before the grace period to repay the loan recently ended, their orchard firm has been losing money.
The new regulatory plan envisions offices and accommodation units where the Tobacco Factory is now in Banja Luka. Even though workers complained that the Factory’s buyer failed to honor privatization obligations, the RS only recently requested termination of the contract.
Though it was set up expressly to process the most serious cases of financial crimes which call for sentences of at least five years, the Special Prosecutor’s Office of the RS has failed to prove charges of that scope. Courts have acquitted officials or sentenced them to jail terms of only three months to two years.
After the Central Election Commission in BiH withdrew the politicians’ asset declarations from its web site—at the request of the Personal Data Protection Agency in Bosnia and Herzgovina–CIN decided to publish them.
The leading Bosnian political parties pay off bills neither to business partners nor to the state and no court verdict guarantees payment of debt.
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