TI BiH invites NARS Finance and Budget Committee to publicly hear Slavica Injac over Bobar Bank affair

Transparency International BiH (TI BiH) sent a request to the members of the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska to propose a public hearing of the director of the RS Banking Agency, Slavica Injac, before this committee to determine responsibility in the Bobar Bank affair. As the Banking Agency, as the supervisory body of the financial system, is directly responsible for its work to the National Assembly, TI BiH emphasized that members of the Finance and Budget Committee should use the legally prescribed opportunity to invite Injac to a public hearing. interest and to understand the control, but also the democratic role of the legislature.

TI BiH reminds that Injac openly told the citizens, among other things, that they should control the work of banks, as well as that the Agency headed by her refused to provide the Final Report of the interim manager of Bobar Bank, and that citizens do not have any information about closures. Beaver Bank and the actions of the Agency in this case.

Public hearings and the formation of inquiry committees are a very common practice in democratic societies in situations where it is necessary to resolve a political affair of particular importance. The obvious damage caused by the closure of Bobar Bank and the suspicions created in the work of supervisory bodies, but also in the purposefulness of their existence, require the use of all available political means in order to determine responsibility. From the moment when the interim administration procedure was opened against Bobar banka ad Bijeljina, Injac’s irresponsible actions, unbalanced statements and persistent hiding of data from the public increased doubts about the legality of the RS Banking Agency, its personal competence, but also about concealing illegalities.

According to the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly of the RS, it is necessary for one of the members to submit a proposal for a public hearing, and then to be supported by the majority of Committee members in order to hold a public hearing before the Committee. TI BiH proposes to provide a live broadcast of the public hearing of Slavica Injac, but also to enable the presence of as many representatives of civil society as possible at the hearing, so that the public finally gets an insight into the actions of the Agency.

If the Committee on Finance and Budget ignores the call of TI BiH, the absolute disinterest of legislators to supervise the work of public institutions and ensure the responsibility of their leaders towards citizens will be shown again.

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