Stories

Narukvica iz porodilišta Univerzitetskog kliničkog centra RS-a (Foto: CIN)

A year later: The authorities still don't know where Sara is

The District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Banja Luka has questioned 40 witnesses over the past year, ordered the analysis of autopsy samples, and reviewed approximately...

Undeclared Holiday Home of the Prime Minister’s Son, Marko Višković

Marko Višković, a councillor in the Municipal Assembly of Milići and the son of Republika Srpska Prime Minister Radovan Višković, owns a holiday home in Han-Pijesak,...

Radovan Višković, Property of the RS Prime Minister in BiH and Serbia

Radovan Višković, the RS Prime Minister, owns a flat, a commercial property, two houses, and 60 dunams of land in BiH, as well as a house in Serbia built without...

Prosecutor’s Office Investigates Dodik’s Role in Attack on BiH’s Constitutional Order

Seven days after receiving a non-final ruling for disregarding the High Representative's decisions, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik is now under a new investigation...

Hungarian TEK Entered BiH as Civilians, Only to Emerge in Uniform the Next Morning

Members of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior’s Counterterrorism Centre (TEK) special unit entered BiH as civilians—without uniforms, in civilian vehicles, and unarmed—the...

Road building on hold for 40 years

13.1.2007.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

BiH has the experts, but not the will to build modern roads. Petty squabbling over routes and land acquisition has frustrated construction of a road network that...

Pilgrims come to find God, but get lost in Međugorje

16.12.2006.

Renata Radić-Dragić (CIN)

Church, police and municipality officials share responsibility for keeping the thousands of pilgrims who come to BiH’s biggest tourist draw safe. They are saddened,...

Our daily bread

11.12.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.

Food control without controlled labs

6.12.2006.

Renata Radić-Dragić (CIN)

Cramped quarters, inadequent equipment, lack of oversight and standards means lab testing of food in BiH could be unreliable.

One sample, different results

5.12.2006.

Renata Radić-Dragić (CIN)

CIN tested some of the labs that test food and found variations.

Prosecutors drag their feet when politicians accused

2.10.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

Financial police complain that when they find abuse of office and illegal expenditures by officials, their reports gather dust in prosecutors’ offices.

Running under a cloud

25.9.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

Political party leaders don’t see any problem with running candidates under suspicion of public corruption. The voters can decide if they don’t like a candidate...

Corruption allegations don't stop careers or campaigns

24.9.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

Years after financial police issue a report about widespread corruption by 21 officials of Srednjobosanski Canton, nothing much has been done and nine of the suspects...

Cantonal government spends for a jail never used

24.9.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

A Federal Financial Police report shows the chain of events that led to the construction of what should have been a jail that sits empty near a school full of c...

Politicians don’t fear Financial Police allegations

23.9.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

Nearly all the suspects named in a 2003 FBiH Financial Police report on corruption that CIN contacted had trouble remembering any criminal complaint.

Canton corruption case lost in pile of cases

21.9.2006.

Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)

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.