Due to the undetermined boundaries between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, 3,600 hectares of land along the Drina river is beyond the control of institutions of either side. This absence of authority suits the local politicians who illegally mine the gravel in this area.
Uncontrolled commercial exploitation, private interests and the lack of government preservation efforts have endangered natural heritage sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The City of Sarajevo is building a business and hospitality center in the forest reserve on Mt. Trebević, even though the building is located in a protected area where such construction is forbidden.
Trnovo municipality arranged for the illegal cutting of 3.5 hectares of forest where it planned to build sport courts, apartment complexes and a hotel. Most of the wood the municipality sold or gave away to private firms. Reporters could not track down what happened with the remainder.
For the past 20 years, three former judges of the Municipal Court in Lukavac have occupied apartments illegally paid with taxpayer contributions. No one has been punished because the statute of limitations expired in the case.
Members of the national Parliament and the FBiH House of Peoples blew an opportunity to trim their salary and thereby contribute these savings to the fight against COVID-19. Only the MPs from the FBiH House of Representatives adopted the initiative. No such motion in Republika Srpska was even proposed.
High ranked politicians continue to conceal their property by ignoring the law which mandates that they must declare to relevant institutions everything they own.
Health care providers in BiH have at least 222 ventilators and another 160 are expected to arrive to help the medical system cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
The bigger part of the money from a cross-border project on development of firefighting capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Montenegro was spent on seminars and similar activities. There was not enough money left to buy much-needed protective boots for firefighters.
Some governmental authorities in BiH have already used up their contingency reserve funds in the fight against coronavirus. Last year they used money earmarked for emergency and unanticipated events to help out citizens’ associations, sport clubs, and for competitors on TV shows.
Over the past 16 years, the Sarajevo Cantonal authorities have done little to reign in the unauthorized use of thermal spring water by a hotel complex and spa resort in Ilidža at a cost of millions of KM in fees.
During a raid, police found around 350,000 KM in the safe of Canton Sarajevo Prosecutor Džemal Karić, who admitted that some of the money was from Alija Delimustafić, as a thank you for helping dismiss the court cases against the businessman’s brothers.
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