Bosnain Muslim professors selling exams, demand money for a passing grade, others want sex from female students; dean of the Bosnian Muslim law school arrested for soliciting Ukrainian prostitutes and organizing orgies for professors in a hotel.

The Muslim half of Bosnia is in the midst of cascading reports and shocking revelations of sexual abuse of students and corruption in its educational institutions.

"Corruption in the universities must be placed in context of general cultural, moral, spiritual and other context. Everyone talks that in Bosnia there is system of values that is absolutely contrary to human nature," says Esma Hadzagic, deputy in the Bosnian Muslim ministry for civilian affairs for higher education.

Hadzagic says that it is nonsensical to talk about corruption in one sector when corruption is everywhere because that value system is encouraged in the Bosnian Muslim Federation.

Bosnian newspaper Dnevni List recently conducted a survey seeking an answer to a question "What do you consider the most important to complete the university in Bosnia?".

At 73.6% citing money as the prerequisite for a university diploma, Bosnian capital Sarajevo is suggestive of the perceptions throughout the country dominated by Bosnian Muslims: Mostar cited the same at 51%, Zenica at 68%, the same goes for Tuzla, the epicenter of one of the most shocking revelations of organized sexual abuses of students by professors.

In September, two female students from the law university in Tuzla, Sejla Ledenjak and Sanela Cajic, were arrested because they were matchmakers for female students willing to have sex with professors in order to pass a class.

These two were part of the sexual abuse network managed by Jasmin Masic, considered to be the main pimp and is held in custody, that organized frequent orgies between female students and several professors in hotels in Tuzla and Zivinici.

Professors Bajro Golic, Fuad Saltag, Zdravko Lucic i Sanjin Omanovic were seen in Jet Star hotel taking part in orgies with female students.

"One would go with Jasmin in a room, and the other with Lucic. Golic would not go in a room but wait in the restaurant. Every time there were other girls coming in, but all of them behaved very intimately. They called them ’professor’ or with a name, but did not hesitate to kiss even while at the table," said a witness whose name is shielded for protection.

Golic denies that he even knows of a hotel called Jet Star but hotel’s owner Jozo Banovic says that Golic and other professors have been "frequent guests" at the hotel.

Abused females are reluctant to go public partly because of social stigma and partly because of fear for their safety.

A rare public complaint of sexual abuse comes from a female student from Zenica who told the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights that professor Golic wrote on her theses proposal paper that she should call him on his cell phone he wrote down on her paper and that she should meet him in Sarajevo. Her identity is shielded by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.

Cantonal Prosecutor Dijana Milic summoned Golic to give deposition and Golic told he that he will not say anything to Milic because she is "vile, not objective and not correct".

The pimp in this case, Jasmin Masic who is also a driver for the officials in Bosnian government, has disclosed that the dean of the Sarajevo Law School, Faud Saltag, was soliciting sexual services from a Ukrainian prostitute Natali K known as Lina and a Romanian one Kornelia D. as well as other international prostitutes for his pleasure as well as pleasure of his professors.

"In the West, state institutions and big companies have departments that work on training the employees on how to defend themselves from sexual abuse. I believe that in some universities mechanisms for defense of students are needed," says Samra Hadziabdic-Filipovic, director of the Agency for Gender Equality.

Former president of the Sarajevo student union, Denis Camdzic, says that the ethics committee has received dozens of complaints but not one professor has ever been punished.

"Female students then lose interest to report professors for sexual abuse and corruption," says Camdzic.

Esma Hadzagic says that her ministry has no oversight of the university authorities and that only international organization investigate corruption in Bosnia.

While sex figures prominently in Bosnian Muslim university departments dominated by males, money is the other portion of the university graft where classes are thought by female professors.

"Professor Cisic charges her tests 600 Marks and sometimes even more. For her tests one has to know 5 papers and of course it is very hard to pass because she believes that the one who wants finish college must pay her," says one report about professor Behija Cisic from the Philosophy school in Tuzla who has been investigated by authorities dressed as civilians.

Investigators also followed the Dean of the Philosophy school Azem Kozar and professors Ahmed Kasumovic and Harzi Saric but stopped the investigation because of lack of funds.

"The most tragic is that Saric teaches on subject of Social Pathology and in the context of the subject there is a portion on corruption as an example of macro social disintegration of the society!" laments a student.

President of the Bosnian Muslim Anti corruption task force Refik Ahmedinovic says that there is no will to prosecute these cases.

"When we get one or two complaints we don’t take them seriously... the problem is with the students themselves that come to us with documents, but in the end they do not sign" the complaint says Ahmedinovic.

Dean of the Law School in Banja Luka, the Serb part of Bosnia, says that in the last 10 years there has been no record of sexual abuse and statistics show that there is no discrepancy in grading between female and male students.

However, the dean of the electro-technical school in Banja Luka says that he cannot claim that there is absolutely no sexual abuse but if there is people would hear. He says that all professors are aware and mindful of a case in which a professor was brutally beaten by a brother after his sister was approached for sex by a professor.

Serbianna