Family members allege that the RS’s leading forensic expert has asked for bribes to help their family members get out of trouble. The pathologist once admitted to the charge but now says he was framed.
Story 1: Tainted Testimony Family members allege that the RS’s leading forensic expert has asked for bribes to help their family members get out
Judges say most are small time dealers and don”t deserve long sentences, but prison officials say they keep on seeing the same people coming back for the same drug charges.
Of 16,600 policemen in Bosnia and Herzegovina, only one is serving time on corruption charges. Polls, however, show that police are seen as one of the most corrupt of the country’s institutions.
Polls show that the public regards police as highly susceptible to corruption. But citizens are not heavily using the system police have set up to stop corruption.
Police are supposed to police themselves to rid themselves of bad officers. But the public rarely files complaints. When it does, they are ignored or the investigations are poorly done.
Police often are tempted by bribes and the lure of extra jobs just to make ends meet on their low wage – wages that don’t even cover the cost of a uniform.
Armin Gazibara was called in by his boss for aggressive behavior, for brawling, and for harassing a family. But he remained a member of the Sarajevo police force for more than two years. Then he murdered his girlfriend.
Did judges in the state court err when they let the names of women raped during the war in Foča come out in an open courtroom? European monitors and victim advocates are worried, but court officials say they acted properly in the name of the public.
Financial police complain that when they find abuse of office and illegal expenditures by officials, their reports gather dust in prosecutors’ offices.
Busy prosecutor’s office says it has only 10 prosecutors to handle 6,000 live cases, and so a 2003 report by Federation Financial Police long goes unacted upon.
The International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia was set up in The Hague in 1993, and a decade later, the state court of Bosnia
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