'SCARS' The poignant testimonies of women victims of war
“I can't deal with this pain alone because I was a witness of it all. Furthermore, my parents were left humiliated dead. Because of all…
A Bosnian grove is timber poachers’ sweet home: The value of illegally cut forest is at least 300 million marks
Both residents of Borci settlement near Boračko Lake and the vacation home owners in that area were alarmed in mid-March by the arrival of…
EVERYTHING IS SEEN, EVERYTHING IS KNOWN A battle for life or an organized crime of coal theft in Dubrave?
Five people have died tragically over the past few years. Nobody wants to say publicly who is behind the theft of several hundred tons of coal per day. The authorities do not do much,…
ALL OUR LOST ARBITRATIONS Will anyone be held accountable for hundreds of millions of lost disputes?
The continuity of disputes being lost before the international arbitration courts has so far undermined fiscal stability and called into question the normal functioning of state-owned energy…
BOWING TO INVESTORS 'Handing Over Gacko to a shady company'
The authorities in Gacko are determined to transfer ownership rights of nearly 62 thousand square meters of land, along with the barracks building in Avtovac, to the Republika Srpska Chinese…
''Precise'' tender of the Municipality of Foča awaits conclusion in the Office for Reviewing Appeals
The Municipality of Foča is ready to pay around 200 thousand BAM for the preparation of a forestry basis for private forests in its area, and sources cited by Direkt indicate that the intended…
A close associate and namesake of Smiljan Vidić, the best candidate for the head of social affairs
On February 15, 2023, the mayor of Čapljina, Smiljan Vidić, amended the Rulebook on the internal organization of the services of the City of Čapljina, and supplemented the staffing plan of the…
WILL ANYONE BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE? Company HP Investing has never obtained a water permit for the quarry in Bijela
Mostar company HP Investing, which caused a genuine ecological catastrophe by mining the quarry in Bijela, has never obtained water permit necessary for the operations. This type of quarry falls…
FOTO/VIDEO Who granted concession to HP investing for the quarry in Bijela and was the area outside land parcel?
The public of Herzegovina, as well as of the region, was shocked by the footage of the quarry landslide in the town of Bijela in the northern area of Mostar municipality. Nature showed all its…
The war between foreign investors and constructors over the HPP in Zvornik
The British company “Mineco” had in March of 2022 put into operation its small hydropower plant “Medoš” on Drinjača River in Zvornik, thus continuing the expansion…
Transferring Employees Between Companies to Obtain Employment Incentives from the Employment Bureau
From the beginning of 2021 until the end of 2023, the company “Mraz” Ltd. from Pale has collected 456,000 KM from the employment support program provided by the Employment Bureau of…
FOTO Guilt Identified, No Conclusion Reached
The Trebinje prosecution has determined the responsibility of the Director of the General Hospital in this city, Nedeljko Lambeta, who procured gas at prices twice as high and thus abused his…
VALTER’S DOSSIER Millionaires in State Customs
Bosanska Gradiska is the most frequent and desirable destination for customs officers and officials. A good portion of them, besides participating in corrupt practices of "coffee-taking" from…
Chinese Company Convicted of Environmental Destruction to Build Foča-Šćepan Polje Highway
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was supposed to finance this project, with the initial estimated value of the works being 90 million euros. The EU delegation prepared…
GOT A DEGREE IN TOURISM TO WORK IN TRANSPORT Andrijana Katić hired the president of a HDZ BiH City Board Mostar
There is a public vacancy for the position in the FBiH Ministry of transport and communications, led by HDZ’s Andrijana Katić, that stood out as interesting during our regular monitoring…
DISCRETIONARY RIGHT TO PUBLIC FUNDS The BiH Council of Ministers as a drunken wedding party
The ministers are giving away money at the last minute and without any criteria. The list of “winners” include undertakers, NLP coaches, associations led by politicians, all kinds of…
Growing Chinese Influence in Republika Srpska - Publicly Giving 200 KM, Secretly Earning Millions
By 2023, according to data from the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPA), citing the "China Global Investment Tracker" research, Chinese investments in Bosnia and…
SERIES OF IRREGULARITIES Courts ‘put out fires’ in fire stations
The Basic Court in Prijedor has issued a judgment obliging the City of Prijedor, specifically the Territorial Fire and Rescue Unit, to pay 48,200 BAM for non-material damage to firefighter S.B.,…
WHO COLLECTED MEGAPROFIT Citizens paid eco-test seven times more than they should have?!
Fokus.ba reveals the scheme of the authorities and private entities: The illegal rulebook, which raises the price of eco-tests from 5 to 22, i.e. to BAM 36, is still in force. Nikšić's…
Minister “invents” job for the wife of his advisor Kalušić
Former Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport of Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDK), Spahija Kozlić, in September 2022, introduced amendments to the pedagogical standards for high school,…
