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Harmful contracts approved by the top management were used to take 3.3 million denars from the Prilep tobacco factor, announced Bitola police today, after an investigation into the case.
The charges are filed against Lj.B. (59), K.S. (60) and J.D. (41) from Prilep, as well as against a legal entity from the village of Malo Konjari. They are suspected of several crimes related to the purchase and sale of waste materials from the Prilep Kombinat.
According to the charges Lj.B., who in 2021 and 2022 was the coordinator of the security team at the plant, is suspected of “embezzlement”, “abuse of official position and authority” and “falsification of an official document”.
K.S. was the general executive director of the plant during the same period, is suspected of “negligent work in the service”, while J.D., the owner and manager of the company from Malo Konjari, is suspected of “concealing” and “falsifying an official document”. The legal entity has been reported for “concealing”.
According to the SVR Bitola, the first defendant, contrary to the official company decisions, was given the opportunity to carry out the sale of the waste, instead of the officer in charge of waste management. During February 2022, according to the report, Lj.B. with the help of J.D. concealed at least 185,000 kilograms of scrap iron from a plant that is owned by the Kombinat. The iron, as the police suspect, was not recorded in the account of the company, but was handed over and purchased by the company from Malo Konjari. Instead of the funds being paid into the account of the tobacco plant, fake purchase notes were prepared for the scrap iron, at a lower price, in the name of eight individuals close to the first defendant.