EFT, Hamović dropped from corruption case
Prosecutors haved dropped EFT, GML and Vuk Hamović as suspects in an energy trading case involving Elektropriveda Republika Srpska they have been pressing for three years.
British, American and Balkan authorities look at EFT
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.
Energy trading master mixes skill and boldness
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.
Court clears way for sell-off of Elektrobosna assets
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.
Financial police find blame
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.
A foreign financial partner did not save Elektrobosna
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.
Flamboyant businessman opens a private school in a private city
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.
Private schools are springing up as an alternative to public faculties
BiH students increasingly are turning to private institutions as an alternative to public universities These schools say they are gaining enrollment because they offer what too few public schools are: updated teaching methods and equipment and partnerships with other schools internationally. However, there is no system to tell the bad schools from good ones and employers don’t really trust the private schools yet.
Professors in power
BiH has been unable to pass a unified law on higher education. It is not as if lawmakers don”t understand the problem. Academics are well represented in the top political ranks of the country and of both entities.