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.
European auditors said the European Commission has provided relatively little funding for projects in the field of freedom of the media and the fight against organised crime and corruption in Western Balkan countries.
Nearly 50 candidates for the positions of mayor or municipality chief in next month’s Bosnian elections have been convicted of, charged with or investigated for organised crime, corruption or war crimes.
Over the past decade, more than 82 per cent of people accused of corruption have either been acquitted or given suspended sentences, indicating that the cases are minor ones or poorly investigated, experts claimed.
State court appeals judge Tihomir Lukes said he stood by the decision issued by the appeals chamber in the case of Ramo Brkic, who was charged with drug trafficking and abuse of power. Lukes testified for the prosecution in the trial of state court judge Azra Miletic and co-defendant Ramo Brkic.