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Entry #59 OSINT World Series
1. Open Data Portals
Bosnia and Herzegovina Open Data Portal — Central government open-data catalogue covering government, economy, population, transport, justice, health, energy, and other datasets.
Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina — BHAS — Main state-level statistics authority. Useful for population, trade, labour, prices, industry, and economic indicators.
BHAS Pivot Database — Queryable statistical database useful when you need data rather than PDF publications.
Federal Institute for Statistics — Federation of BiH — FBiH demographic, economic, labour, industrial, agricultural, and municipal statistics.
Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics — Data Portal — Statistical database specifically for Republika Srpska.
Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Statistics — Monetary, banking, balance-of-payments, financial, and macroeconomic data.
World Bank — Bosnia and Herzegovina Data — Development, demographic, economic, and infrastructure indicators.
Eurostat — Useful for comparable EU/enlargement statistics involving Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2. Company Registries
Unified Registers of Business Entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Probably the first company-search tool to use. It provides unified access to registers from the Federation, Republika Srpska, and Brčko.
Brčko District Business Register — Direct Brčko company-registration system.
Brčko Business Register — Open Data/XML — Particularly useful if doing bulk or structured research.
FIA — Financial-Information Agency of the Federation of BiH — Business and financial information for Federation entities.
Sarajevo Stock Exchange — SASE — Listed-company research, issuer profiles, management, securities, and financial information.
SASE — Listed Securities — Search listed securities and issuers.
Republika Srpska Securities Commission — Issuer Database — Search RS securities issuers.
Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Useful for banking information and published information on blocked business accounts.
BiH e-Procurement — Supplier Search — Useful for connecting businesses to government procurement.
OpenCorporates — International company search; use alongside official Bosnian registers.
GLEIF LEI Search — Useful for Bosnian financial/legal entities that have Legal Entity Identifiers.
3. Land & Property Records
Katastar.ba — Federation Cadastre — Official cadastral portal with parcel and cadastral information.
e-Grunt — Federation Electronic Land Registry — Electronic land-registry research.
Federation Property Price Register — RCN — Real-estate transaction information such as location, property type, area, date, and price.
Federal Geodetic Administration Geoportal — Maps, administrative boundaries, orthophotos, roads, waterways, and spatial layers.
FGU WMS/WFS/WCS Geospatial Services — GIS and programmatic mapping services.
RGURS e-Katastar — Republika Srpska cadastral search.
RGURS Electronic Services — Gateway to the RS Geoportal, e-Katastar, and real-estate price services.
Brčko District Electronic Land Registry — Search digitized Brčko land-book information.
4. Conflict Resources
OSCE — War Crimes Processing in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Monitoring and reports on domestic war-crimes proceedings.
ICTY / IRMCT Unified Court Records Database — Archive of testimony, exhibits, judgments, transcripts, and Yugoslav war-crimes records.
Srebrenica Memorial Center — Investigations — Research material relating to Srebrenica and genocide documentation.
International Commission on Missing Persons — Bosnia and Herzegovina
ICMP Regional Missing Persons Database — Public name/territory-based search for missing persons.
EUFOR Operation Althea — International military/security presence and official updates.
Office of the High Representative — OHR — Essential for post-Dayton political and security research.
OHR — High Representative Reports — Periodic reports on political and institutional developments.
ACLED — Bosnia and Herzegovina — Political violence, protests, and event data.
5. Geospatial Data and Maps
Geofabrik — Bosnia and Herzegovina OpenStreetMap Extracts — Downloadable OSM datasets for GIS analysis.
OpenRailwayMap — Railway infrastructure.
Copernicus Browser — Sentinel satellite imagery and historical comparison.
Mapillary — Crowdsourced street-level imagery.
6. Flight & Vessel Tracking
Aircraft
ADS-B Exchange — Useful for aircraft that may be filtered from some commercial trackers.
OpenSky Network — Research-friendly ADS-B data.
Vessels
7. People Search
BH Telecom Telephone Directory — Search telephone-directory entries for individuals and legal entities.
CIN — Politicians’ Assets Database — Valuable Bosnia-specific research resource connecting officials with property, income, companies, and political information.
Central Election Commission — CEC BiH — Candidates, election participants, political parties, and results.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Judiciary Portal — Courts, prosecutors, and judiciary-related information.
FamilySearch — Historical and genealogical research.
OCCRP Aleph — Search companies, persons, documents, and public/leaked datasets across jurisdictions.
Google Dorks useful for Bosnia
"Full Name" site:gov.ba
"Full Name" site:pravosudje.ba
"Full Name" site:izbori.ba
"Full Name" site:parlament.ba
"Full Name" filetype:pdf
"Full Name" (Sarajevo OR "Banja Luka" OR Mostar OR Tuzla)
"Full Name" (direktor OR vlasnik OR osnivač OR zastupnik)
"Full Name" ("član uprave" OR "nadzorni odbor")
"Company Name" (direktor OR vlasnik OR osnivač)
"Company Name" site:ejn.gov.ba
"Company Name" filetype:pdf
"JIB NUMBER"
"email@example.com"
"+387 PHONE NUMBER"8. Media Outlets
Public-service / institutional broadcasters
BHRT — Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina — State-level public broadcaster.
Federalna — RTV Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina — FBiH public broadcaster.
RTRS — Radio Television of Republika Srpska — RS public broadcaster.
Major/general media
Klix.ba — Major national online news portal.
N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina — Sarajevo-based regional television and news operation.
Independent / investigative
CIN — Center for Investigative Reporting — Strong for corruption, procurement, political assets, judiciary, companies, property, and public-administration investigations.
Detektor / BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina — Courts, war crimes, extremism, disinformation, and investigations.
Mediacentar Sarajevo - Mediacentar Sarajevo supports development of independent and professional journalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) maintains one of its primary regional hubs and an office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Žurnal — Investigative and current-affairs outlet.
Capital.ba — Business, public money, and Republika Srpska investigations.
BUKA — Banja Luka-based news and commentary.
Alternative / government-critical sources worth cross-checking
BN TV — Large private broadcaster with extensive Republika Srpska coverage.
Slobodna Bosna — Politics and current affairs.
Media ownership research
Media Ownership Monitor — Bosnia and Herzegovina — Useful for identifying media owners, audience concentration, and links between outlets and business/political actors.
9. Public Procurement & Government Spending
BiH e-Procurement Portal — Public tenders, contracting authorities, procurement notices, suppliers, and awards.
New Bosnia e-Procurement Portal — New-generation procurement platform.
e-Procurement — Supplier Search — Search businesses participating in government procurement.
Integrity Watch Bosnia and Herzegovina — Combines public procurement, political financing, and politicians’ asset declarations.
TED — EU Tenders Electronic Daily — EU procurement and internationally funded contracts involving Bosnia.
10. Elections, Political Parties & Public Officials
Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina — CEC — Candidates, parties, election results, and electoral information.
Integrity Watch BiH — Political-party finance, procurement, and asset declarations.
CIN Politicians’ Assets — Profiles and assets of political figures.
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina — MPs, committees, legislation, sessions, questions, and documents.
Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina — Corruption monitoring, political integrity, procurement, and public-sector research.
11. Courts, Judicial Records & Official Gazettes
Bosnia and Herzegovina Judiciary Portal — Entry point for courts, prosecutor offices, and judicial institutions.
Judicial Practice Database — Searchable court-practice and judicial-decision database.
Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Laws, regulations, appointments, and official publications.
ICTY / IRMCT Court Records — Historical conflict-related judicial research.
12. Sanctions, PEPs & Anti-Corruption
OpenSanctions — PEPs, sanctions, companies, and person/entity relationships.
US OFAC Sanctions Search — Important because Bosnia-linked individuals and entities can appear in US sanctions programs.
13. Trade, Customs, Banking & Securities
Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina — UINO — Customs, VAT, and indirect-tax authority.
UINO — ASYCUDA — Customs information system.
UN Comtrade — Bilateral commodity trade analysis.
ITC Trade Map — Imports, exports, trading partners, and product-level trade.
14. Internet Infrastructure, Domains & Website Research
NIC.ba — Bosnia and Herzegovina Domain Registry — Registry and domain information for
.ba.RIPEstat — IP addresses, ASNs, routing history, and network ownership.
BGP.he.net — Autonomous-system and network research.
crt.sh — Discover subdomains using certificate-transparency records.
urlscan.io — Website infrastructure and historical scans.
Wayback Machine — Historical versions of Bosnian websites.
Shodan — Publicly visible internet infrastructure.
Censys Search — Internet hosts, certificates, and infrastructure.
Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina — RAK — Telecom, broadcasting, spectrum, and licensed communications entities.
15. Archives & Historical Research
Especially important for investigations spanning Yugoslav, wartime, and post-Dayton periods.
Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina — State archival institution.
Archives of BiH — Fonds and Collections — Helps identify available archival collections.
Europeana — Search digitized European historical collections.
16. Other OSINT Toolkits and Resources
17. Miscellaneous
Office of the High Representative — OHR — Laws, political decisions, institutional history, and Dayton-related material.
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina — Elections, human rights, governance, hate crimes, war crimes, and security.
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