The former director of the Health Insurance Institute of Sarajevo Canton faces a lawsuit after spending more than 20,000 euros on a conference in the US that never took place.
Some the candidates who were elected as the best possible fits for positions at the Prosecutors Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina never raised an indictment. Young and without extensive prosecutorial experience, these hires are working on war crimes cases, one of the most complex areas of criminal law.
In at least 12 cases, Bosnian state court and prosecution employees are related to each other a situation which could create conflicts of interest, experts say.
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects received 640,000 euro of state money, plus more cash from private funds, while Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats got nothing.
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation has revealed.