Bosnian state court authorities say they vindicated former international Judge Gerald Gahima of the War Crimes Chamber of any wrong-doing in his native Rwanda, but they won’t say how they had the authority to decide law in another country or just how they went about making their determination of innocence.
On Friday, representatives from more than 30 countries will meet in Brussels to discuss a request by the BiH government for €43 million to continue funding the State Court of BiH, which oversees the War Crimes Chamber and for a new prison.
A new chapter in the century long saga of Elektrobosna opened when a Bosnian businessman living in Germany wrestled control of the bankrupt company this year from the Croatian businessman financial police suspect tried to gut it. CIN looks at the power struggle that helped turn one of Bosnia”s brightest hopes into a financial disaster.
A list of major owners and creditors of Elektrobosna.
Elektrobosna once employed 3,000 workers and brought prosperity to Jajce. Workers felt taken care of when company managers paid for medical care. Now injured workers find they must pay for their own care.
Before the war, Elektrobosna employees had plenty of safety equipment. Today, serious injuries can result from lack of items as inexpensive as a 10KM pair of work gloves.
An in-depth look at the investigations into how EFT does business. Despite having come under heavy international scrutiny, the firm and its charismatic owner have never been charged with any wrongdoing.
His former business partners do not talk about Vuk Hamović, and he refused to answer most questions about his life asked by the Center for Investigative Reporting. But records and interviews show much about Hamović’s remarkable rise, his business sense and flair which appeared early, and his ease associating with politicians and businessmen internationally.
A judge”s ruling may spell the end of more than 100 years of history for a Jajce firm, Elektrobosna, once a giant of Yugoslav manufacturing. Much of the firm”s assets will be sold at auction in April.
The financial police of the Federation of Bosnian-Herzegovina audited Elektrobosna and Elektrobosna-N at the request of state prosecutors, and in an administration report last year blamed 13 people for the company”s problems.
New East, a British firm that promised to put 21 million KM into the financially ailing Elektrobosna, but actually put in only about 4 million.
Slobodan Pavlović, a Bosnian Serb immigrant to America, enrolled in a Chicago university while working in a factory and earned a degree that helped him to make a fortune as a real estate executive. At the height of the 1990s war, he returned to his homeland to begin building a business empire – including the largest private university in the country: Slobomir University. But Pavlović is also controversial figure with a criminal and political past and a penchant for winning financially in his good deeds. We take an in-depth look at his controversial past and his current business practices.
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