PRESS RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

TI BiH and representatives of Georgia, Ukraine and Lithuania on open public procurement

Announcements ● 11 September 2017

Workshop: Anti-corruption measures for the Action Plan of the Open Government Partnership
regarding public procurement
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TI BiH filed a report against Gordana Tadic

Press releases ● 11 September 2017

TI BiH submitted a request to the Office of the Disciplinary Counsel to investigate the actions of the Acting Chief Prosecutor Gordana Tadic, pointing out more potential disciplinary violations (more…)

Instead of investigations due to the irresponsible public finance management – the prosecution of the Auditor General

Press releases ● 29 August 2017

Attempts to discredit the audit reports, attacks which, according to the Auditor General, come from the holders of the highest functions in the Republic of Srpska, and direct attempts to dismiss and take the control over the audit, show once again that the RS Government does not care about the legal or institutional order and that the institutions are treated as personal assets (more…)

IDDEEA’s proposal not in compliance with the EU regulations and jeopardizes the public procurement system

Press releases ● 29 August 2017

Instead of harmonizing the public procurement implementation with the Law, IDDEEA proposes to exclude procurement of the identification documents from the implementation of the Law on public procurement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is contrary to the EU regulations, challenges the purpose of the Law and creates new possibilities for the abuse. (more…)

TI BiH: Amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of BiH should be revised

Press releases ● 22 August 2017

The Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information introduces the obligation of proactive publication of certain information categories, but this obligation has not been precisely defined, nor has it been specifically prescribed what kind of information and in which way must be published. (more…)

The Council of Ministers continues with the controversial practice of appointing the acting directors

Press releases ● 15 August 2017

The controversial practice of temporary appointments has been repeated for several times and referred to a disproportionately long period of time, without having clearly prescribed procedures, rules and criteria, thus creating space for political appointments (more…)

When a state pays for Dodik’s son-in-law fittings

Press releases ● 20 July 2017

Study conducted by Transparency International in BiH and CAPITAL.ba (more…)

Cooked food tender: HET orders octopuses, squids, „Jack Daniel’s“…

Press releases ● 19 July 2017

• HET (Hydropower plants on Trebisnjica) decided to order expensive drinks and the best dishes to celebrate its Saint Patron’s Day – from Jack Daniel’s to 25 kg of octopuses
• Last year the profit of HET decreased for BAM 115.161
• Research performed by the portal CAPITAL.ba and Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The captured country in the post-conflict society

Press releases ● 02 July 2017

The Center for Election Studies, Transparency International BiH, NGO Why not and the Faculty of Political Science Sarajevo are organizing a session entitled „The captured country in the post-conflict society“, which will be held on Monday, 3rd July at 19.30h in Dom oruzanih snaga BiH, with a special guest Professor Francis Fukuyama. (more…)

The Council of Ministers allowed the use of official vehicles for personal purposes

Press releases ● 27 June 2017

By adopting the Amendments to the Regulation governing the use of official vehicles, the Council of Ministers legalized the irresponsible use of the same, since it will enable the use of vehicles for personal purposes (more…)

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…)