October 23 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Bosnian media on Friday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy:
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
- The Swedish government has decided to parole former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, the daily said. She was was serving a jail sentence in Sweden for crimes against humanity.
- The shareholders of Bosnia’s biggest power utility, Elektroprivreda BiH, have approved its merger with seven state-owned coal mines, the daily said. The newly-founded concern will have a combined payroll of 17,000 for the rest of the year before its restructuring plan is drafted.
- Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation will begin reimbursing by the year-end holders of pre-war foreign currency deposits on its territory, who lost their money with the start of the 1992-95 conflict in the country, starting with a combined settlement worth 50.2 million marka, Tihimir Curak, an official from the Federation’s Finance Ministry said. The complete outstanding amount of some 347 million marka would be repaid by September 2014. The government said on Wednesday it has decided to issue government bonds to cover the cost of upcoming reimbursements.
- The leasing market in Bosnia plunged 72% in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2008 due to the economic crisis, the head of the Association of Leasing Companies in Bosnia, Sulejman Hadzic, said, giving no figures.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)