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SARAJEVO, December 8 (FENA) - The Center for Media Development and Analysis and the Pratimotendere.ba portal today presented a report on anti-corruption monitoring of public procurement, on the occasion of marking the International Anti-Corruption Day.
This report presents the results of monitoring 5,426 public procurement procedures, with a total value of more than 138 million KM. The results show significant trends in risky, i.e. non-transparent, discriminatory and corrupt spending.
Anti-corruption monitoring is carried out within the project "Support to Citizens in the Fight against Corruption", implemented by CCI, CRMA Association and Transparency International BiH with the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The monitoring report was realized through the Pratimotendere.ba portal. It is an innovative tool, which is based on a special methodology, a special software algorithm and is the first portal for detecting risky public procurement in BiH and the region.
Eldin Karić, Executive Director of the Center for Media Development and Analysis, said at the press conference that the goal of the project is to directly involve citizens in the fight against corruption.
“Citizens are victims of corruption, which is at a very high level in BiH. Public procurement is one of the main sources and generators of corruption, which is quite logical because there is money, funds that citizens allocate through taxes and other forms of obligations to the state. These funds are also used for the procurement of goods and services, but the problem is that the system itself is still very endangered, as this research showed. Through our project, we also pointed out those public procurements that are subject to corruption,” said Karić.
Slobodan Golubović from the Pratimotendere.ba portal presented several examples of abuse.
“The most common use that we notice is related to illegal planning of public procurement. The manner in which this abuse is committed takes place in various ways, from the contracting authorities not publishing the procurement plan at all, to the fact that these plans are published at the end of the year. First, the funds are spent, and then the plan is published and the illusion of transparency is shown,” said Golubović.
He states that the trends show that some 30 percent of the contracting authorities, which they monitored, have a problem with illegal planning of public procurement.
One of the examples they noticed last year was the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, which published a procurement plan at the end of the year, according to which they first spent the funds and then published the plan.
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