Press releases

Report on monitoring the trials related to the cases of corrupt criminal offenses

Press releases ● 23 June 2017

In the period from 15th November 2016 to 15th May 2017. students of the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies together with their colleagues from the Faculty of Law of the Sarajevo University, with the full support of the US Embassy in BiH, followed twelve trials in the cases of corrupt criminal offenses at the Court of BiH and the Cantonal and Municipality Court in Sarajevo.

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Public enterprises in RS spent BAM 4,3 million on media and restaurants

Press releases ● 20 June 2017

A research conducted by portal CAPITAL.ba and Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (more…)

TI BiH filed to CEC reports against 8 political parties due to the illegal donations

Press releases ● 16 June 2017

TI BiH has filed reports against SDA, SDP, SBB, HDZ BiH, HDZ 1990, DF, DNS and PDP for receiving donations from legal entities that have concluded contracts with the organs of executive power. The most controversial donations have been found with SDA, which had reported donations from 20 companies that concluded contracts of total value higher than BAM 28 million in 2015 and 2016.
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The BiH judiciary again proved it can be worse

Press releases ● 13 June 2017

The judiciary in BiH has been constantly declining in regard to the efficiency of corruption prosecution for 8 years now, which is seen in the decreased number of reports, initiated investigations, indictments and convictions for corruption offenses. Almost two-thirds of court decisions refer to the termination of proceedings, and the Court of BiH has delivered only 8 prison sentences in the last 2 years (more…)

TI BiH presents the findings of Monitoring corruption processing in 2015 and 2016

Announcements ● 12 June 2017

TI BiH will present findings of monitoring the work of the prosecutor’s offices and courts related to the processing of corruption cases during 2015 and 2016 (more…)

To annul the appointment of the Director of IDDEEA due to the incompatibility of functions

Press releases ● 30 May 2017

TI BiH requested from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to annul the appointment of Arif Nanic to the position of the Director of IDDEEA, because he has been a member of the Procurement Review Body at the same time, which is contrary to the Law on Public Procurement of BiH. (more…)

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Development Bank of FBiH resigned in exchange for the appointment to the position of Acting Executive Director

Press releases ● 25 May 2017

Mersiha Slipicevic, member of the Supervisory Board of the Development Bank of FBiH resigned from her position in the Supervisory Board in exchange for the position of a member of the Managing Board. (more…)

TI BiH won the case against RTRS for failing to submit the list of its employees

Press releases ● 22 May 2017

The District Court in Banja Luka confirmed that the Radio and Television of the Republic of Srpska violated the Law on Free Access to Information, by refusing to submit to TI BiH the public procurement contracts and the list of its employees (more…)

The appointments of the acting managers undermine the functioning of BiH institutions

Press releases ● 13 May 2017

Procedures of appointing acting managers and their deputies in BiH institutions are non-transparent and unregulated creating thus a legal gap or space for the abuses and open political appointments (more…)

RECRUITMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WITHOUT COMPETITION SHOULD BE STOPPED

Press releases ● 05 May 2017

In 2016, in spite of moratorium, there were several thousands of new employments made in 75% of administrative bodies, usually without competition procedure! (more…)

TI BiH discovered new abuses in recruitment process: Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs of RS issued illegal work experience certificates

Press releases ● 04 May 2017

Upon the report of TI BiH, the administrative inspectors have found that the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs of RS had employed several persons based on the work experience certificate which were illegally issued, and ordered the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs to annul all controversial decisions on employment. (more…)

TI BiH and CCI are organizing Forum entitled „Transparent and meritorious employments for better public administration“

Press releases ● 04 May 2017

Transparency International in BiH (TI BiH) and Centers for civic initiatives (CCI) are organizing Forum „Transparent and meritorious employments for better public administration“. (more…)

Students of the Secondary School for Environment and Wood Design Sarajevo visited Transparency International BiH

Press releases ● 21 March 2017

Students of the section “Civitas” of the Secondary School for Environment and Wood Design Sarajevo, accompanied by professor Selvira Masnic, visited Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH). (more…)

Presentation of the results of the third Public Administration Reform Monitoring

Announcements ● 11 March 2017

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) in cooperation with the Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organizations Project (TASCO) is organizing a two-day regional conference „Dialogue and cooperation with civil society for better public administration reform results“. (more…)

Opening institutions to citizens is the key reform of public administration

Press releases ● 01 March 2017

Open Government Café was used to present the ways to improve communication and cooperation between institutions and interest groups and citizens (more…)

Citizens still mostly report corruption in employment

Press releases ● 28 February 2017

Results of the Advocacy and Legal Advice Center show that the corruption in employment is one of the most important problems encountered by citizens, and that majority of complaints in 2016 referred to the employment procedure in public administration and educational institutions (more…)