- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- 01/03/2025
- actor text
- RS Tax Inspectorate
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- confidence notes
- First documented case of Foreign Agents Law enforcement mechanism applied to independent media in RS — one day after law adoption. Presidential naming → tax inspection sequence confirms administrative enforcement precedes formal legal procedure. Dodik explicitly frames as USAID investigation extensi
- date confidence
- exact
- excerpt
- Tax inspectors of RS Tax Administration arrive at offices of Capital.ba — independent investigative portal critical of Dodik — on March 1, 2025, one day after RS National Assembly adopted Foreign Agents Law. Editor Siniša Vukelić confirms inspectors requested documentation on paid taxes and contributions in what they called an 'informational inspection.' Inspection follows a week in which Dodik repeatedly named Capital.ba in public speeches, called Vukelić a 'cretin' and 'foreign servant' on RTR
- id
- SIG-BIH-025
- incident id
- BIH-025
- normalized date
- 2025-03-01
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor function
- execution
- actor primary
- RS Tax Inspectorate
- actor type primary
- Government Official
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- campaign phase
- Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization
- case id
- BIH-025
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- confidence notes
- First documented case of Foreign Agents Law enforcement mechanism applied to independent media in RS — one day after law adoption. Presidential naming → tax inspection sequence confirms administrative enforcement precedes formal legal procedure. Dodik explicitly frames as USAID investigation extensi
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- exact
- escalation stage
- 4
- event date normalized
- 2025-03-01
- event date raw
- 01/03/2025
- harm track
- Both
- institutional consequence
- Financial surveillance; Chilling effect
- narrative density
- high
- narrative origin
- hybrid
- primary narrative code
- NF-02
- primary narrative label
- Financial Corruption / Grant Abuse
- secondary narrative code
- NF-01
- secondary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-025
- source text excerpt
- Tax inspectors of RS Tax Administration arrive at offices of Capital.ba — independent investigative portal critical of Dodik — on March 1, 2025, one day after RS National Assembly adopted Foreign Agents Law. Editor Siniša Vukelić confirms inspectors requested documentation on paid taxes and contributions in what they called an 'informational inspection.' Inspection follows a week in which Dodik repeatedly named Capital.ba in public speeches, called Vukelić a 'cretin' and 'foreign servant' on RTR
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/32980
- tactic code
- Regulatory / Financial Inspection (tax inspection on political order)
- target
- Capital.ba (independent media)
- target type
- Media
- trigger to signal lag
- 0-3
- trigger type
- TR-06: Legislative Milestone
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/32980
- target text
- Capital.ba (independent media)
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