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.
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.
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.
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.
Russian diplomats who were ousted by other European countries after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have since been accredited as part of the Russian mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Detektor has learned.
Under the guise of patriotism, at least 19 shops and online stores in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are selling clothes glorifying war criminals like Ratko Mladic and promoting far-right ideas, a BIRN investigation reveals.
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.
Chinese and Turkish companies have had almost no competition from foreign companies in winning lucrative construction contracts worth over three billion euros in Bosnia and Herzegovina, research by Detektor reveals.
Bosnia-Herzegovina looks set to impose fuel import controls which Russia insists on before it will let the country join the World Trade Organization, Detektor has learnt. Fuel prices may rise as a result.