An investigator from the Special Department for War Crimes is in the Zabrđe settlement, in the Sarajevo municipality of Novi Grad, where, on the order of the prosecutor working on the case, he is coordinating the work and activities within the exhumation process.

During the construction works, mortal remains were found at the mentioned site, which are presumed to belong to the victims from the previous war, after which the works have been suspended, the site has been secured, and the process of exhumation of mortal remains of at least one person at the said site has begun.
The work of authorized persons in the exhumation process is coordinated by the investigator of the Special Department for War Crimes, and other persons present at the site are a forensic pathologist, representatives of the Institute for Missing Persons (INO) B&amp;H, required workers and machinery.
The site is being secured by police officers from the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Interior.
After the exhumation, the remains will be sent for further forensic processing and identification of the victims through DNA analysis.
Investigators and staff of the Prosecutor’s Office of B&amp;H have been participating in exhumation processes and searches for the remains of missing persons, which have been carried out throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After the exhumation, the remains will be sent for further forensic processing and identification of the victims through DNA analysis

The site is being secured by police officers from the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Interior

Remains of at least two persons exhumed in Zabrđe settlement

The March of the Living, an annual event that brings together Holocaust survivors and family members at the former Auschwitz death camp, was held online for a second consecutive year on Thursday due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants usually stage a march at the site in southern Poland but restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus have made that impossible. Nevertheless, organisers and participants say it is important that the event goes ahead.
-We have no other choice- said 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Tzipora Freund.
-This time it has to be virtual because every year people march... Each and every year youngsters and elderly will march there and will not forget.-

Freund and her son, who were in Israel, laid virtual messages of remembrance in the railway track leading to the gate of the death camp as part of a computer simulation of the event, as did Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and others.

More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in the gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, which the Nazis set up in occupied Poland during World War Two.
-We have to remember that the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and also hate and racism are things that are happening. It’s not something that is part of history- said Baruch Adler, 70, co-founder and vice chairman of the March of the Living.
-So my message is: You have to know that you have to fight. That remembrance, it’s a fight-

More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in the gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease

Participants attend the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, May 2, 2019.

Holocaust survivors join virtual March of Living ceremony at Auschwitz

The Ambassador of the United States of America, Eric Nelson, talked today with the President of the Alliance for a Better Future of B&amp;H (SBB), Fahrudin Radončić.
-AMB Nelson spoke with SBB leader Radoncic today to discuss electoral reform and anti-corruption efforts. The United States and our international partners remain committed to reforms that will make BiH elections more transparent and strengthen this country’s democracy – posted the US Embassy on its Twitter account.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">AMB Nelson spoke with SBB leader Radoncic today to discuss electoral reform and anti-corruption efforts. The United States and our international partners remain committed to reforms that will make BiH elections more transparent and strengthen this country’s democracy.— US Embassy Sarajevo (@USEmbassySJJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/USEmbassySJJ/status/1380154696145461259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The United States and our international partners remain committed to reforms that will make B&H elections more transparent, it was stated from the American Embassy

US Ambassador Eric Nelson talked with Radončić about electoral reform and the fight against corruption

Germany said Wednesday there was a “real chance” to rescue the Iran nuclear accord following the latest round of talks in Vienna between Iran and the four world powers still party to the 2015 deal.

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Christofer Burger, the deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman, praised the “constructive” stance in the meeting between senior officials of Iran, China, Russia, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
-I can say that from our point of view all delegations are behaving constructively. From our point of view, there is a real chance to preserve the JCPOA and to achieve a return of the USA to the agreement- Burger said, referring to the deal’s official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
He added that it is important for all sides to show a “willingness to compromise” amid intensified diplomatic efforts to return the US to the landmark accord and lift the Trump-era sanctions on Iran.
Burger made also clear all sides face “hard work” ahead to save the nuclear agreement.
The countries will continue to discuss ways to revive the deal, which then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned in May 2018.
A US delegation was also in the Austrian capital on Tuesday in a bid to save the accord, but the team headed by Special Envoy Robert Malley did not participate in the meeting with other world powers, as Iran refuses to directly negotiate with the US until so-called “maximum pressure” sanctions are lifted.

Berlin urges 'willingness to compromise' amid intensified diplomacy to return US to nuclear deal

Burger made also clear all sides face “hard work” ahead to save the nuclear agreement

Germany stresses 'real chance' to save Iran nuke deal

At today's meeting of the Operational Group for the situation with migrants in the Una-Sana Canton (USC), it was confirmed that in recent days all migrants from the temporary reception center Miral in Velika Kladuša were tested on COVID-19, and that 135 of them tested positive.

-Unfortunately, that information is correct, but it is especially worrying that 55 infected migrants left the center after that and headed in an unknown direction. This is an inadmissible error of international and security organizations and agencies that manage the center. Therefore, we appeal to the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of the USC to react on this issue and examine the responsibility for such a threat to the epidemiological situation in our canton- said the Prime Minister of the USC Mustafa Ružnić.
He added that the help of the competent state institutions in finding adequate space for the treatment of people with a more severe clinical picture was requested, given that city and municipal health centers, as well as the Cantonal Hospital in Bihać are near capacity.
-We simply need help in the treatment of migrants and refugees positive for COVID-19, because we no longer have any capacity. We hope for an adequate response, so that we can provide appropriate assistance to people with a possible severe clinical picture- said Prime Minister Ružnić.
Due to the increased number of infected persons at the reception centers, the Operational Group announced that the supervision and control will be intensified, i.e. the prevention of the entry of migrants and refugees into the Una-Sana Canton.

55 infected migrants left the center after that and headed in an unknown direction

The help of the competent state institutions in finding adequate space for the treatment of people with a more severe clinical picture was requested

More than 130 migrants from Miral reception center tested positive for COVID-19

The trial in the "Respirators" case continued today in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which Fadil Novalić, Prime Minister of FB&amp;H, Jelka Milićević, Federal Minister of Finance, Fahrudin Solak, suspended director of FCPA and Fikret Hodžić, owner of "Srebrna malina" are accused of a corruption affair worth 10.5 million KM.Today, prosecutors continued to question witness Bahra Džaka, the secretary in the Office of the accused Novalić, who knew about all the offers that reached the Government, including those of "Srebrena malina" by Fikret Hodžić.When asked by prosecutor Mirza Hukeljić, she replied that it was not an envelope that went to the director of KCUS, Sebija Izetbegović, by mistake, "but a piece of paper with the handwritten „Canada“ " on it.

She confirmed that several offers had arrived at the Office of the Government of FB&amp;H, at least three, and that the last offer was from Fikret Hodžić and "Srebrena malina".
However, as she said, this offer of "Srebrena malina" did not seem serious to her, which is why she did not send it to the FB&amp;H Public Health Institute.
-Only at the end of May can we deliver the first quantities. There are 400 pieces in stock, price 90,000 KM + VAT. That is the only thing that is available today. This is best in class. They can be delivered in Sarajevo in seven days – it is written in one of Hodžić's messages to Džaka.
She also confirmed that in later correspondence with Hodžić, he sent an e-mail stating that the government must send a letter of intent to the Chinese, and even sent a letter of intent from the Serbian government about buying respirators, which they sent to China.
Džaka said that the Government wrote the letter and translated it into English, but that by mistake, she wrote 200 respirators, instead of hundred. Džaka later explained that the first letter of intent contained a facsimile of the signature of Prime Minister Novalić, which she had placed because the prime minister was busy.
She added that the first letter of intent signed on 2nd of April was an offer for HC-VE003 respirators, but that a second letter of intent which was brough by Zoran Blagojević, Prime Minister Novalić's external public relations consultant, was signed on 15th of April . There was a hurry and as she said, she pulled Novalić out of the meeting and he just signed while standing.

However, after the respirators arrived in B&amp;H on May 16th last year, Prime Minister Fadil Novalić sent a message to Džaka at 3:30 PM:
-Please check this one more time. I found out about the AM812A from the media. That one did not cross us- Novalić wrote to the secretary, and she had previously written to him "as far as I remember, there are none of those we asked for"
As she said, she concluded that Novalić did not know which respirators were ordered. In the message, Džaka reminded him that the second letter of intent he had signed contained that code.
She explained that the letters of intent are not a binding act, but only an expression of intent to procure respirators.
Answering the question of Novalić's lawyer Vasvija Vidović, Džaka explained that Fikret Hodžić's offer did not have any special treatment in relation to the offers from the other two offers, including offer „Canada“.
Prosecutor Džermin Pašić later reformulated that into a question "did you communicate with others who sent offers in the same way as with Fikret Hodzic", to which Džaka briefly replied "no".
She also confirmed that Hodžić had sent another offer for medical equipment, and that she had previously sent him a table with the required equipment. She could not answer the question where the table came from and who made it, but later, when asked by the defense, she confirmed that the Public Health Institute had sent a list of necessary medical devices.

Hodžić made an offer which he sent on the same day, April 1st, last year, 15:01 with a total value of equipment of 3,393,000 KM.
Explaining the way of working in the office of Prime Minister Novalić, Bahra Džaka explained that Hasan Ganibegović was the director of the Prime Minister's Office and her direct superior, and that every act was reviewed so that he could initial it. The witness said that Ganibegović had certain objections to her work, but that they overcame everything. Judge Branko Perić was just interested in what Ganibegović resented to Džaka.
- The director did not want to initial the first letter of intent - said Džaka, who replied via viber that she must send it because of the hurry, to which he replied "send it" briefly.
The prosecutors were interested in the communication between Bahra Džaka and Vildana from KCUS (then the secretary of the general director Sebija Izetbegović), considering that Džaka confirmed that they did not know each other personally, and that she sent the offers they received for respirators. She confirmed that she had talked to Vildana on two occasions and that it was probably a matter of resolving the "Canada" paper problem.
Džaka also forwarded offers for respirators to her friend, anesthesiologist Aida Čorbeg, in order to inform her "what is available on the Chinese market and whether those that FB&amp;H wants to buy are good". Čorbeg will be questioned in the continuation of the trial scheduled for April 16th.

Please check this one more time. I found out about the AM812A from the media. That one did not cross us, Novalić wrote to his secretary Džaka

Fadil Novalić ordered respirators, but he didn't know which ones came?!

The trial in the "Respirators" case ended today in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which Fadil Novalić, Prime Minister of FB&amp;H, Jelka Milićević, Federal Minister of Finance, Fahrudin Solak, suspended director of FCPA and Fikret Hodžić, owner of "Srebrna malina" are accused of a corruption affair worth 10.5 million KM.
Today, prosecutors continued to question witness Bahra Džaka, the secretary in the Office of the accused Novalić, who knew about all the offers that reached the Government, including those of "Srebrena malina" by Fikret Hodžić.
When asked by prosecutor Mirza Hukeljić, she replied that it was not an envelope that went to the director of KCUS, Sebija Izetbegović, by mistake, "but a piece of paper with the handwritten „Canada“ " on it.
She confirmed that several offers had arrived at the Office of the Government of FB&amp;H, at least three, and that the last offer was from Fikret Hodžić and "Srebrena malina".
However, as she said, this offer of "Srebrena malina" did not seem serious to her, which is why she did not send it to the FB&amp;H Public Health Institute.
Only at the end of May can we deliver the first quantities. There are 400 pieces in stock, price 90,000 KM + VAT. That is the only thing that is available today. This is best in class. They can be delivered in Sarajevo in seven days – it is written in one of Hodžić's messages to Džaka.
She also confirmed that in later correspondence with Hodžić, he sent an e-mail stating that the government must send a letter of intent to the Chinese, and even sent a letter of intent from the Serbian government about buying respirators, which they sent to China.
Džaka said that the Government wrote the letter and translated it into English, but that by mistake, she wrote 200 respirators, not a hundred.
She said that when the respirators came, it turned out that they were not looking for ACM812 respirators but others, HCVE003.
She added that the first letter of intent signed on 2nd of April was an offer for HC-VE003 respirators, but that a second letter was signed on 15th of April relating to ACM812A respirators.
She confirmed that both letters were signed by Prime Minister Fadil Novalić and that he then sent her a message after respirators came to B&amp;H.
-Please check this one more time. I found out about the AM812A from the media. That one did not cross us- Novalić wrote to the secretary, and she had previously written to him "as far as I remember, there are none of those we asked for"
Also, she didn't have answers to some questions because she said she doesn't remember everything.

Today's hearing of Fadil Novalić and others in the Court of B&H has ended

The European Union’s slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout will damage Ryanair’s prospects in the coming year, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline said on Wednesday, as it flagged a smaller than expected loss for its financial year just ended.The Irish company said it now expected passenger traffic in the year to March 31, 2022, to be towards the lower end of its previously estimate of 80-120 million people.-Easter travel restrictions/lockdowns and a delayed traffic recovery into the peak Summer 21 season, due to the slow rollout in the EU of COVID-19 vaccines, means that FY22 traffic is likely to be towards the lower end of our previously guided range- it said in a statement.
Ryanair flew 27.5 million passengers in the last 12 months, down from 149 million passengers in the year to March 2020, before the pandemic had a significant impact.
The airline, one of the harshest critics of European politicians’ handling of the COVID-19 crisis, said that while it was too soon to make meaningful profit guidance for the new financial year, it expected to be “close to breakeven.”
Goodbody Stockbrokers said in a note it expected “some adjustment down” from its current 252 million euro ($299 million) profit forecast for the year to end-March 2022.
Ryanair, which is due to publish its annual results on May 17, said it expected to announce a net loss of 800-850 million euros compared with 850-950 million previously.
The airline had 3.15 billion euros of cash at the end of March, down from 3.5 billion at the end of December.
Its shares were unchanged at 16.95 euros at 0844 GMT.

Ryanair flew 27.5 million passengers in the last 12 months, down from 149 million passengers in the year to March 2020, before the pandemic had a significant impact

Ryanair planes at Dublin Airport after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Dublin, Ireland, May 1, 2020.

Ryanair says slow EU vaccine rollout to hit passenger forecast

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has tested negative for the coronavirus, his lawyer Olga Mikhailova said on Wednesday, adding that he has taken a second test.

Navalny, 44, an opponent of President Vladimir Putin, announced that he going on a hunger strike last week in protest at what he said was the refusal of prison authorities to treat him properly for acute back and leg pain.
Human rights group Amnesty International earlier on Wednesday said Navalny had been incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him.

Opponent of President Vladimir Putin, announced that he going on a hunger strike last week in protest at what he said was the refusal of prison authorities to treat him properly for acute back and leg pain

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters, who were detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow, Russia September 29, 2019.

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny tests negative for coronavirus, says lawyer

Russia on Wednesday warned Zoom that it could be completely blocked in the country after local media reported that it had restricted access to government agencies and state-owned companies.

The US company has emerged as the global leader in video-conferencing applications, becoming ubiquitous as companies and schools moved online after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. 
Russian media reported Wednesday that Zoom had banned its distributors from selling to government agencies and companies in Russia and a number of post-Soviet countries known as the Commonwealth of Independent States over concerns of new US sanctions against Moscow.
Alexander Bashkin, a member of Russia's upper house of parliament, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency that Moscow could be forced to respond.
-Russia is not a supporter of sanctions, but if Zoom takes such a decision with respect to government agencies and state-owned companies, then it is possible to block this service in our country as a reciprocal, symmetrical measure- the Federation Council lawmaker was cited as saying.
Russia has previously blocked Western online platforms such as LinkedIn, and in March began slowing down the speeds of Twitter's services in the country in an attempt to force the US social media giant to remove what it says is "illegal content".
President Vladimir Putin has complained that large tech companies are competing with states and authorities are aiming to build up local competitors that can replace Western platforms. 
Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said that Russia's schools would not be affected by a potential Zoom ban, adding that the country's new video-conferencing system Sferum could serve as a replacement.
-We are ready for any situation. And of course we will focus more on our own software- he was cited by the state-run TASS news agency as saying.
Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom said it would likewise have no problem with Zoom being banned.
-The Russian nuclear industry uses its own internal closed platform for communications- a spokesperson was cited by RIA Novosti as saying.

The US company has emerged as the global leader in video-conferencing applications

Russian media reported Wednesday that Zoom had banned its distributors from selling to government agencies and companies in Russia and a number of post-Soviet countries known as the Commonwealth of Independent States over concerns of new US sanctions against Moscow

Russia warns could block Zoom if it prohibits govt use

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalised for the second time in two weeks, a source within his Forza Italia party said Wednesday. 

The flamboyant 84-year-old billionaire and media tycoon has been at Milan's San Raffaele hospital since Tuesday afternoon, the source said.
Berlusconi arrived for a check-up, and doctors decided to keep him in to conduct more tests, the source added.
The hospitalisation was also announced by one of Berlusconi's lawyers during a hearing in Milan linked to his long-running "bunga bunga" sex scandal. 
The hearing is part of the latest prong of the investigation into Berlusconi's relationship with an underage girl, Karima El-Mahroug, dubbed "Ruby the heart-stealer".
The probe involves alleged payments to witnesses by Berlusconi to buy their silence over his so-called "bunga bunga" parties involving El-Mahroug and other women.
Berlusconi, who has dominated public life in Italy since the 1980s, has had a string of health problems in recent years.
He already spent a couple of days at the San Raffaele in late March. His entourage said at the time it was to conduct previously scheduled tests. 
In January, Berlusconi -- who had open heart surgery in 2016 -- was admitted to a hospital in Monaco for heart problems. Last September, he was hospitalised for 11 days with Covid-19.&nbsp;

He  arrived for a check-up, and doctors decided to keep him in to conduct more tests

The flamboyant 84-year-old billionaire and media tycoon has been at Milan's San Raffaele hospital since Tuesday afternoon

Italy's ex-PM Berlusconi hospitalised again

Diego Maradona's former lawyer has hit back at the late Argentine football legend's daughters after his offices were raided by anti-fraud police, accusing them of abandoning their father.

Matias Morla and two of Maradona's daughters, Dalma and Gianinna, are embroiled in an inheritance dispute over Maradona's brand and image rights.
-Maradona was abandoned, that's clear. He died alone, apart from the sisters with whom he spoke every day and (his ex-girlfriend) Veronica Ojeda, who went to see him with Dieguito Fernando, his son- Morla told America TV on Monday night.
Morla's offices were raided on Monday as part of an investigation launched after Dalma and Gianinna made a complaint against the lawyer on March 12 for fraudulent administration and fraud.
The two daughters asked for an investigation into the use of the Maradona brand by a company called Sattvica that is owned by Morla.
They accused Morla of "betrayal, dishonesty and abuse" in his management of Maradona's brand and image rights after the star's death.
Sattvica is currently barred from using the brand.
But Morla fired back at his accusers, suggesting the issue was really about money.
-Diego said: 'The Maradona brand will look after my sisters, the image will look after my heirs'," said Morla, adding that the 1986 World Cup winning captain submitted a signed document to that effect with a Dubai court in 2015 or 2016.
Dalma and Gianinna "don't like me because in 2014 we took away their credit cards," added Morla, who has locked horns with the two daughters for years.
Maradona died of a heart attack on November 25 aged 60 while recovering from an operation to remove a blood clot from his head.
In a separate investigation, authorities are looking into the health treatment he received to determine whether there was any neglect or malpractice.
Maradona had battled cocaine and alcohol addictions during his life.
He was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular disorders when he died.
Maradona is an idol to millions of Argentines after he inspired the South American country to only their second World Cup triumph in 1986.
An attacking midfielder who spent two years with Spanish giants Barcelona, he is also loved in Naples where he helped Napoli win the only two Serie A titles in their history.

They accused Matias Morla of "betrayal, dishonesty and abuse" in his management of Maradona's brand and image rights after the star's death

Maradona died of a heart attack on November 25 aged 60 while recovering from an operation to remove a blood clot from his head

Maradona lawyer blasts star's daughters over inheritance dispute

Amid signs of improving ties between Turkey and the European Union, Turkey’s president on Tuesday received top EU officials paying an official visit to the country.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Charles Michel, head of the EU Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU Commission, at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara.
Following the nearly three-hour meeting, at a press conference at the EU Delegation to Turkey, Michel said: “The EU is ready to present a concrete agenda to strengthen cooperation on the economy and immigration, and inter-societal ties.”
He said the EU recognizes the strategic importance of mutually beneficial and positive relations with Turkey and security and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Leyen said the visit is meant to give an impetus to Turkish-EU relations, adding that areas of mutually beneficial cooperation were covered during their meeting with Erdogan.
-We will deal with current hardships in implementation of the Customs Union and eventually work to update it- she added, referring to a 1995 trade deal between Turkey and the bloc.

Union ready to strengthen cooperation with Turkey, say EU officials

urkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) receives EU Council President Charles Michel (L) and President of EU Commission Ursula Von der Leyen (R) at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on April 6, 2021.

Turkish president receives top EU officials in Ankara

About 1.6 million views on YouTube out of every 1 billion are of a video that violates its content policies, about even with a year ago, the streaming service owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google said in a new disclosure on Tuesday.The “violative view rate” (VVR) has dropped over 70% since it was first tracked in the fourth quarter of 2017, YouTube said, and demonstrates its progress in blocking hate speech and other videos it considers dangerous before they go viral.
Critics have said inadequate policing by YouTube and other social media companies enables false and hateful rhetoric to spread, fomenting deadly violence such as the U.S. Capitol attack in January.
YouTube’s VVR was steady over the last six quarters measured, according to the new data, which run through 2020.
Jennifer O’Connor, a product director at YouTube, told reporters that she hoped releasing the estimate each quarter “continues to hold us accountable.”
She said the rate, like other enforcement data YouTube releases, could fluctuate as its technology, rules and users evolve. For instance, YouTube removed nearly 171,000 channels for hate speech in the fourth quarter, three times more than the preceding period. It attributed the jump to improved detection technology.
The VVR comprises all policy violations and is derived from a sampling of videos. It does not include comments on videos.
Facebook Inc releases a similar estimate but excludes bullying, spam and other violations. Added up, Facebook has said at least 15 million views out of 1 billion in the fourth quarter were of content violating its rules against adult nudity and sexual activity, violent or graphic material and hate speech.
Countering criticism about “grading” itself, Facebook last year said it would hire an outside auditor to assess its disclosures.
YouTube’s O’Connor on Monday declined to commit to an external audit but said she “wouldn’t rule it out.”

The “violative view rate” (VVR) has dropped over 70% since it was first tracked in the fourth quarter of 2017.

A YouTube logo seen at the YouTube Space LA in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, United States October 21, 2015.

YouTube discloses prevalence of rule-breaking videos for first time

Inspectors of the Federal Administration for Inspection Affairs also entered the premises of the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo this morning. They entered on the order of the SC Prosecutor's Office, whose prosecutors, together with state and SIPA members, also searched the institution yesterday.
- On April 6th, 2021., the Federal Administration for Inspection Affairs received a request from the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton for inspection supervision and submission of information related to the use of mechanical ventilation devices ACM 812A, hygienic conditions, organization of medical staff and conditions and medical treatment of patients that were diagnosed with COVID-19 at KCUS. Pursuant to the request, the Federal Health Inspectorate started the inspection this morning, and it is expected that within three days we will submit the report on the procedure and the collected information / documentation to the competent Prosecutor's Office for further action - the Federal Administration for Inspection Affairs told „Avaz“. 
The search followed after the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office formed a case on the events in this medical institution, which was officially confirmed today by this judicial institution.
Activities at KCUS were launched after a letter from doctors that appeared in public, which spoke about the catastrophic situation at KCUS and stated that "Srebrna malina" respirators could not be used to treat COVID patients.
The prosecution team also included investigators from the Sc Prosecutor's Office and inspectors from the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), and the entire procedure was led by State Prosecutor Džermin Pašić.

The Federal Health Inspectorate started the inspection this morning, they said from this institution for "Avaz"

Inspectors work on the orders of the SC Prosecutor's Office

The "Respirators" affair: Federal inspectors are also searching KCUS

The Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of B&amp;H (HJPC), which yesterday filed disciplinary lawsuits against the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H Gordana Tadić and the President of the Court of B&amp;H Ranko Debevec, did not request their suspension.

<h2>Conducted an investigation for more than a year</h2>

The Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor of B&amp;H did not answer for "Avaz" why the suspension was not requested for the heads of judicial functions, primarily Debevec, who was investigated for more than a year and who, among other things, was accused of inappropriate contact with the person against whom proceedings are being conducted before the court he governs.
This is Osman Mehmedagić, the director of ISA, as evidenced by the published photos in the media.

Debevec is also accused for not declaring property in Spain, but also of intentionally giving false, misleading or insufficient information regarding job applications, promotion issues or any other issues that fall within the competence of the Council. 
From this disciplinary point, it remained unclear whether Debevec was also accused of concealing dual citizenship and dual identity, which he used and traveled properly under the name Ranko Debevec Kaveson.
He was reported to the Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor that he hid this information when applying for the position of prosecutor, and later judge, as well as for the competition for the head of the Court of B&amp;H.
After all, Debevec used the dual citizenship of Spain, and it is disputable that B&amp;H has not signed an agreement on dual citizenship with the Kingdom of Spain. This means that Debevec could not even have dual citizenship of B&amp;H and Spain.

However, the Law on the HJPC B&amp;H is clear. It is now up to Halil Lagumdžija, the president of the HJPC, who will form the First Instance Disciplinary Commission, which will decide on disciplinary lawsuits against the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina justice.
In addition, the decision on temporary removal from the office of judicial office is made by the First Instance Disciplinary Commission at the request of the Office of the Disciplinary Counsel, which may be submitted subsequently.
However, given the disciplinary points of the lawsuit against Debevec, including "making inappropriate comments through communication with the prosecutor in the case in which the defendant is a participant in the proceedings", it is obvious that the request for suspension against the head of the Court of B&amp;H had to be filed.

The report states that Debevec put pressure on the prosecutor by sending her text messages in an attempt to stop or redirect the course of the prosecutor's checks of the allegations from the criminal report against him.
Article 77 of the Law on the HJPC BiH clearly states.
A judge or prosecutor may be temporarily removed from office "if disciplinary proceedings have been instituted for a disciplinary offense and the Chamber finds that disciplinary liability cannot be properly established without the judge or prosecutor being temporarily removed from office during the proceedings."
However, the temporary suspension is valid only for the duration of the disciplinary proceedings. In the case of initiating a criminal investigation by the Prosecutor's Office, which is also very certain, the Chief Disciplinary Prosecutor is obliged to propose his suspension, until the investigation is completed.

<h2> Ignoring the obligation and order of the Council</h2>

As for Tadić, she is also charged with three counts. One of them is that, as the head of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H, by failing to apply the provisions of the Law on Protection of Classified Information, she failed to initiate the procedure of personal security checks of the staff of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H handling classified information.
It was also stated that the Council's obligation and order to allocate prosecution cases to prosecutors through the automatic distribution system (TCMS) during her term as Chief Prosecutor was also neglected.

The decision on temporary removal from office is made by the First Instance Disciplinary Commission at the request of the Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor, which may be submitted subsequently

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