Commission fees in BiH
Commission fees in BiH Reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo have collected and analyzed data on payment of commission fees at 41 state agencies from Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2008. For better overview, the data have been outlined as a table with the following entries—year/the name of commission/the first and last name […]
The Total Tab in Fees For Nine Top Commissioners Topped 400.000 KM
Records of more than 3,300 commission members in BiH show how a select group of judges and justice ministries officials are dominating the system and raking in tens of thousands of KM on top of their annual salaries.
Extra Pay: No Extra Work
Twenty-one institutions in FBiH spent 5.48 million KM on commissioner fees over a three-year period, yet auditors found the commission system encourages idleness and waste, and that rules are ignored. But some ministers say the system is valuable – and make money from it.
Money Spent with Few Results to Show
What do commissions do? The answer depends on who’s talking. In the case of BiH’s 52 government institutions, commissions have been created to launch pet projects or serve as a pit where authorities can dump difficult political issues. Not all commissioners are paid, but those who are collected at least 3 million KM in the most recent three-year period.
Commissions: A Custom With No Controls
Government officials at all levels of government in BiH say that the hundreds of commissions that cost taxpayers millions of KM are desperately needed. They cannot or will not say how many commissions there are, what they cost each year and offer no accounting. CIN reporters decided to do that work themselves.
Full SIPA Report: Details, Accusations
An investigation into contracting in RS, though flawed, examines expenditures on government showpiece buildings in Banja Luka and finds that an array of officials helped inflate costs and benefited a favored contractor.
The Bičakčić and Čović Housing Scheme
A political sweetener turned sour last week for Edhem Bičakčić, former FBiH Prime Minister and Dragan Čović, his former deputy, when they were charged with overstepping their authority and benefiting others through a housing scheme that was funded at the expense of the FBiH budget.
Branković, Bičakčić Indicted
The two were indicted in connection with a privatization scheme that allowed the FBiH prime minister to pay 900 KM for a Ciglane apartment.
Will Court of BiH Prevail?
If the Constitutional Court of BiH rules that a section of the Law on the Court of BiH is unconstitutional at a session scheduled for Friday, it could leave entity and lower courts without an arbiter.