12. November 2024.
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour – never faced court.
Investigation
5. November 2024.
Revelations that a government agency in Republika Srpska has agreed to open a ‘media school’ with an EU-sanctioned Russian propaganda tool shows Moscow is upping its information warfare in the Balkans.
14. May 2024.
A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN was able to track his posts, following his journey to the frontline.
29. February 2024.
Peter Gasparovic, who was sentenced in Slovakia for corruption, fled to Mostar while on parole and has sought asylum there, becoming the third senior Slovak security official to have taken refuge in Bosnia in the last few years.
6. November 2023.
Bosnians who believed promises of quick payouts for little work got their wallets emptied in eMagnetix’s pyramid scheme. Investigative reporters from Detektor, in collaboration with Raskrinkavanje, infiltrated the scheme and found that its organiser also registered fake companies in Austria, Italy and Slovakia.
26. September 2023.
The MC Serbs motorcycle club from Serbia, whose members wear Nazi-style death’s head insignias and some have tattoos of a stylised swastika, has officially registered an association to operate in the city of Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Detektor has learned.
22. September 2023.
A group of young people called the Chetnik Youth Gacko express support for Serb nationalist Chetnik leaders who have been convicted of inciting hatred and military leaders convicted of genocide and war crimes. They’ve amassed 6,000 followers online, causing concern among post-war returnees to the small town of Gacko.
19. July 2023.
Despite a 2021 conviction for breaching his fiduciary duty, Marinko Brkic continued to represent clients after the Republika Srpska Bar Association missed the deadline to remove him from the registry of attorneys. This has left several war crimes trials in a state of uncertainty, Detektor reveals.
27. April 2023.
A group of Bosnian Serb football fans has taken to displaying symbols associated with neo-Nazism, with apparently little fear of punishment.
15. March 2023.
The Ukrainian government wants sanctions placed on Igor Chasnyk, a board member for a major Russian gas firm until recently owned by an oligarch friend of President Vladimir Putin, but he has become one of the several dozen Russians who have registered new businesses in Sarajevo since the start of the war.
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