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…
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…
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,…
They spend hundreds of millions of marks through Annex II monthly
Provision of services worth more than BAM 428 million was sought through Annex II of the BiH Public Procurement Law in just one month of the last year, and the most money is spent on the health…
Annulled competition at “Golub Kureš” school in Bileća
Two days after "Direkt" published a story about irregularities in the competition for hiring teachers for the economic subjects group at "Golub Kureš" high school in Bileća, it was…
ADMINISTRATION IS NEVER ENOUGH Municipality of Gacko is hiring
The Municipality of Gacko is among local self-governments with a significant surplus of workers. Although the budget for this year allocated 5.8 million BAM for personal income, it is clear that…
China has targeted BiH again! This time allied with Saudi Arabia
China has, together with Saudi Arabia, with whom it is working hard to establish a new world order, once again targeted Bosnia and Herzegovina. As Fokus learns, large companies of these two…
Green energy of Edhem Bičakčić
“The energy transition must be fair”, said Edhem Bičakčić, former prime minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and former director of the Electric Utility of BiH (EPBiH…
Where is the cold store intended for returnees in Foča?
Not even two weeks after our inquiry were not enough for the public relations office of the Municipality of Novi Grad Sarajevo to answer the question – how and where did the money awarded…
Lawyers manipulate both law and courts
Several dozen landowners in the Trebinje area have lost their plots in legal proceedings initiated by two local lawyers. They filed lawsuits and proposed each other as legal representatives for…
Incorrect calculations, additional points, and the “best” candidat
Just as the director of the Golub Kureš High School Center in Bileća, Zdravka Milićević, appointed her daughter as a probationary pedagogue, a new competition at this school has raised…
How did a councilor of Nešić’s party from Pale get a job in Nešić’s ministry?
The fact that the politicization of the civil service in BiH, that is, employment along the party lines, is a process that takes place continuously, behind a screen, in full view of the public,…
“Flush it down or throw it to the garbage bin, like all of us”
Disposal of medical waste from households is not regulated by the laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and the institutions do not monitor waste quantities and the methods of its disposal.…