ENERGY TRANSITION Failed Bosnian-Chinese Partnership Projects
For years, officials and institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina have ignored the commitments and the path taken by the European Union (EU), thus…
CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES OF CANTON SARAJEVO From a mural to a drone
This year, the Public Institution Center for Advanced Technologies of Canton Sarajevo allocated funds for various public purchases, including a…
The Municipality of Istočni Stari Grad donates land worth three million BAM to “Jahorina” Olympic centre
The significantly underdeveloped Municipality of Istočni Stari Grad has donated nearly 70 dunums of land worth three million BAM to the “Jahorina” Olympic Centre for the construction…
'ECO HEATING PLANTS' Citizens pay a high price for poor heating, millions to private owners from the city budget
Banja Luka's "Eco Heating Plants" Ltd, a company that is mostly privately owned, has received at least 7 million KM in subsidies from the city of Banja Luka over the past two years. Experts…
Unequal treatment of Trebinje pensioners
For years, there has been a disproportionate allocation of funds from the City of Trebinje's budget to two pensioner associations. The official Association of Pensioners (UP) of the City of…
Desperate Borrowing by the Government of RS
Powerless due to the shutdown of funding sources in the global market, the Government of Republika Srpska, whose numerous members are under sanctions, including the President of RS and the Serb…
Investigation launched against judicial police officer
At the beginning of April, the Infoveza portal published an investigation revealing that judicial police officer Ramel Šorlija had been undertaking construction work for years without…
Favouring the chinese investor, electricity produced in BiH will be exported, without paying grid fees
The electricity generated in the Ivovik wind farm will not be used by domestic consumers; instead, it will be sold on the foreign market. In this way, Chinese investors will make millions in…
Is “Ekvator” planning a new scam involving apartments?
The owner of the company “Ekvator”, Đorđe Đoko Davidović, has made an unusual proposal to buyers of hundreds of apartments from whom he received payment but never completed the…
TROIKA LOOKING AFTER ČOVIĆ’S SONS-IN-LAW MM Energy granted second extension for Volujak study delivery
The Federation Ministry of Environment and Tourism has, for the second time, extended the deadline for Marko Soldo, Čović's son-in-law and partner, to submit a study for the construction of the…
'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 that injustice and pain, I have decided to write…
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 machines that started cutting down the forest. &ldquo…
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…