The fight against high corruption has no alternative, everyone in BiH agree. But from year to year from judicial institutions, the results are not encouraging. Investigations in prosecutors’ offices have been made for years of non-conducting investigations, the trials are slow, and the verdicts are, when both, preclude or acquittal.
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Some cantonal prosecutors’ offices have nothing to boast. According to the Prosecution of Livanj Canton, from January 2020. until 1. February 2025, therefore, in five years, only two high corruption cases were formed. An ordination of the non-conducting investigation was made in one event, while the second case continues in the statement of the statement from the criminal charges, after which the prosecutorial decision is expected. Thus, this Prosecution had no indictments raised in this period.
Only one subject of high corruption was in the focus of the work of the Prosecution of Posavina Canton in the past five years.
– We had one case received in 2021, in which the indictment was filed as follows in 2021. years and by which there was no verdict. Furthermore, this Prosecution does not conduct any investigation in high corruption cases, the response signed by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Posavska Canton Ivanka Stanić.
Seven cases of high corruption were formed in the SBK Prosecutor’s Office, of which the indictment was filed in five cases before the competent courts.
– The indictment was confirmed in four cases, while the indictment confirmation was rejected in one case. In one case, a conviction was made, while four cases were in progress. The two cases were made by an investigation suspension order. There are no cases in this prosecutor’s office who are in the investigation phase, they state from this Prosecution.
They had more work in the ZDK Prosecutor’s Office. In the last five years, 20 high corruption cases were launched in this judicial institution.
Fourteen indictments were erected, as confirmed by the fact that there was another indictment confirmed in 2019. years. There are currently no cases in this prosecutor’s office where the investigation is conducted when it comes to high corruption. Sixteen verdicts were made, the main prosecutor of Vesna Kaknjo points out.
Interestingly, the past five years in the BPK Prosecutor’s Office of Goražde there were no high corruption cases. According to Transparency International in BiH, in 2024. 130 final convictions for these crimes were recorded, which was a weaker result in almost eight percent more than 2023. Year. On the other hand, the courts in BiH have increased the number of acquittals by 20 percent in 2024. in the year, in spite of the fact that the second mostorest country in Europe and records the worst result of 2012.
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Ultimately, more efficient fight against corruption is expected when the Federal USKOK, ie the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Supreme Court of the FBiH, which are in charge of combating corruption, organized and intercantonal crime officially begins. The beginning of the work of USKOK is expected to be 30. April, and at this time it is not yet known how much cases will take into operation from the cantonal prosecutor’s offices. The main federal prosecutor Munib Halilović confirmed a few days a few days that the Federal Government allocated more than half a million KM for uskok. As explained, the funds are intended for the purchase of the necessary equipment, writes Liberation.
