Judiciary
Many children in Bosnia and Herzigovina born after rape in war don’t know the truth about their origins like the 61 children CIN found.
Mubarek Asani (CIN) i Svjetlana Ćelić (CIN)
18.7.2014
Many children in Bosnia and Herzigovina born after rape in war don’t know the truth about their origins like the 61 children CIN found.
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.
FBiH President Živko Budimir violated the law by clearing the criminal records of three people who already had won pardons.
At the end of June, the District Court of Banja Luka accepted a plea agreement Dario Brkić—accused of organizing illegal betting in the area—signed….
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Court appointed defenses represent lucrative business for a small number of attorneys. Their less well paid peers and some inmates say that judges in violation of regulations may even propose attorneys for certain jobs.
Judicial authorities often belatedly issue orders to freeze the assets of convicts after they have managed to sell them off.
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