Several hundred Bosnians are victims of a Ponzi scheme. They gave money believing that they were trading on Forex, the currency market. Their money has never arrived at the market.
The business partner of former Municipality of Stari Grad mayor Ibrahim Hadžibajrić secretly furnished two luxury apartments in a new building near the Markale market, the final design of which was approved by the mayor’s closest associate, Alma Destanović. Hadžibajrić and Destanović are facing trial for illegally issuing a construction permit for the construction of this building.
The construction of the mixed-use building of Amko Komerc near the Markale market was still ongoing when Elmedin Karišik, self-appointed custodian of the property of then-Mayor of the Sarajevo Municipality of Stari Grad Ibrahim Hadžibajrić, decided to furnish two luxurious apartments on the top floor.
He approached the job discreetly, unwilling to share…
Several hundred Bosnians are victims of a Ponzi scheme. They gave money believing that they were trading on Forex, the currency market. Their money has never arrived at the market.
The state and entity agencies have spent at least 19 million KM in discretionary funds in the past three years. Civil servants bought meals, party colleagues’ books, drank alcohol and left tips in bars with the taxpayers’ money.
Since 2010, the BiH Council of Ministers has given out over half million KM from emergency/unanticipated event reserve account to individuals including party colleagues, cousins and neighbors.
Out of 21 million KM in agricultural subsidies that the Federation of BiH Ministry of Agriculture provided in 2012, at least 2.7 million KM went to the firms that applied with the outdated buildings, non-existent businesses or were owned by party colleagues and the minister’s family.
A number of buildings in Serbia owned by Bosnia and Herzegovina firms has been illegally sold or is left abandoned to crumble. Some Serbian firms have also not yet returned their property in BiH, because the two countries are not implementing the Succession Agreement in its entirety.
Stanko Subotić, Boško Radonjić, Tasim Kučević and Naser Kelmendi are just some of benefactors of religious buildings in Serbia and BiH.
Two Serbian businessmen of Bosnian descent, Dragan Đurić and Milan Pešut, participated in privatizations in BiH and Serbia. And while there were irregularities in the buyouts of state-owned companies, their contracts were never terminated.
Sarajevo-based Šipad Komerc has properties worth millions of Euros in Serbia. They could lose some of them because of the misuse of the renovation contract.
The case against Zijad Turković and his accomplices is before the state court. Serbian and Croatian nationals are also charged with grave crimes.
Products which should be sold by prescription are routinely going over the counter in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pharmacies also are trading in products potentiall unsafe because they are illegally imported and unlicensed
The border between BiH and Serbia is not an obstacle for criminals, but an opportunity for profit from smuggling narcotics, stolen cars or livestock in whichand law enforcement members take part.
The Institutions, private firms and individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia have been receiving the awards from Oxford-based European Business Assembly (EBA) for years. The awards are pitched as outstanding results achieved in a prestigious competition. However, the reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo and Belgrade (CIN/CINS) found that lucrative business is behind awards ceremonies.
Several hundred Bosnians are victims of a Ponzi scheme. They gave money believing that they were trading on Forex, the currency market. Their money has never arrived at the market.
The state and entity agencies have spent at least 19 million KM in discretionary funds in the past three years. Civil servants bought meals, party colleagues’ books, drank alcohol and left tips in bars with the taxpayers’ money.
Since 2010, the BiH Council of Ministers has given out over half million KM from emergency/unanticipated event reserve account to individuals including party colleagues, cousins and neighbors.
Out of 21 million KM in agricultural subsidies that the Federation of BiH Ministry of Agriculture provided in 2012, at least 2.7 million KM went to the firms that applied with the outdated buildings, non-existent businesses or were owned by party colleagues and the minister’s family.
A number of buildings in Serbia owned by Bosnia and Herzegovina firms has been illegally sold or is left abandoned to crumble. Some Serbian firms have also not yet returned their property in BiH, because the two countries are not implementing the Succession Agreement in its entirety.
Stanko Subotić, Boško Radonjić, Tasim Kučević and Naser Kelmendi are just some of benefactors of religious buildings in Serbia and BiH.
Two Serbian businessmen of Bosnian descent, Dragan Đurić and Milan Pešut, participated in privatizations in BiH and Serbia. And while there were irregularities in the buyouts of state-owned companies, their contracts were never terminated.
Sarajevo-based Šipad Komerc has properties worth millions of Euros in Serbia. They could lose some of them because of the misuse of the renovation contract.
The case against Zijad Turković and his accomplices is before the state court. Serbian and Croatian nationals are also charged with grave crimes.
Products which should be sold by prescription are routinely going over the counter in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pharmacies also are trading in products potentiall unsafe because they are illegally imported and unlicensed
The border between BiH and Serbia is not an obstacle for criminals, but an opportunity for profit from smuggling narcotics, stolen cars or livestock in whichand law enforcement members take part.
The Institutions, private firms and individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia have been receiving the awards from Oxford-based European Business Assembly (EBA) for years. The awards are pitched as outstanding results achieved in a prestigious competition. However, the reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo and Belgrade (CIN/CINS) found that lucrative business is behind awards ceremonies.
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