Last year, the Bosniak Party (BS) paid out less than 47.000 euros from the party coffers to help citizens. According to the findings of the State Audit Institution (DRI), Rafe Husović's party gave another 3.850 euros in donations to humanitarian and religious communities, non-governmental associations and sports clubs.
"The costs of assistance to natural persons were paid in a state of difficult material situation, treatment, purchase of building materials for house adaptation, etc. The aforementioned expenses were documented by submitted requests and decisions of the competent authorities of the Party. The payment of assistance was made in the amount of 20 to 5.000", it says the finding of DRI.
The SAI report points out that BS ended last year with a surplus of EUR 38.000, and the party had almost EUR 375.000 in income in the year when the parliamentary elections were held. As stated, the costs amounted to a little more than 335.000 euros. Due to the costs, the Bosniak Party received conditional opinions from the Supreme Audit Office on both the financial report and the regularity audit.
In the report, it is stated that the SAI warned that the BS did not harmonize the information on the expenses of the election campaign, which amounted to 71.810 euros with the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK), and almost 7.500 euros less in the general ledger.
The campaign was financed with 22.700 euros from budget funds, 25.000 from a short-term loan, 5.500 from contributions from natural persons, and 45.0000 euros from own funds.
The auditor's report states that the SAI gave a conditional opinion to the Bosniak Party due to the inconsistent application of the Tax Law, the Labor Law and several regulations. In accordance with the work contracts, the party paid 300 euros each to six coordinators in the municipal committees in order to prepare for the parliamentary elections, which, according to the SAI, are by nature tasks from the party's regular activities.
"During the audit process, it was determined that no tax obligations were calculated and paid for the fees paid, which is not in accordance with Article 46 of the Law on Personal Income Tax. The audit determined that the fees under the work contract were paid to public officials. it was determined that they did not report the income on this basis to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption," the SAI's finding states.
The commission carried out an inventory of fixed assets of BS, but did not carry out an inventory of cash in the treasury and deposits in giro accounts, as well as an inventory of receivables and liabilities.
It is also stated that the audit of the financial report for 2016 found that BS implemented six of the ten recommendations given, and four did not.
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