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Behind the Alta Bank case stand the business interests of SDS and DUI; Besimi opened the topic of the bank in the Government, and a company of Ahmeti’s in-law took a 5-million-euro loan. The Alta Bank case is proof of the way SDS and DUI, led by Ahmeti and the Zaev clan, governed, it is stated in a press release from VMRO-DPMNE.
The ruling party added that the Alta Bank case is also proof that the state and the citizens were not important to SDSM and DUI, and that their only interest was business schemes, non-transparent deals, the enormous overnight enrichment of individuals, as well as commissions and the filling of their own pockets on the backs of the people. “There is no major scandal in Macedonia in which the money trails do not lead directly to Zajas, to DUI and Ali Ahmeti. The company of Ahmeti’s in-law receives a 5-million-euro loan from Alta Bank Serbia. It is now clear to every citizen why the former DUI officials Fatmir Besimi, Bujar Osmani and Artan Grubi so aggressively pushed the entry of Alta Bank into the Macedonian financial sector”, VMRO-DPMNE stated.
They pointed out that the controversial Serbian tycoon Davor Macura, who is now in detention in Serbia, took control of Stopanska Banka Bitola, later renamed Alta Bank Macedonia, by buying the shares directly from the family company of Ali Ahmeti’s in-law. In October 2024, the Kicevo company “AS Senjak” of Selaudin Arifi, Ali Ahmeti’s in-law, suddenly enters the banking business and buys a significant package of shares in Stopanska Banka Bitola. In June 2025, their related company takes the five-million-euro loan from Alta Bank in Belgrade.
And just three months later, on 17 September 2025, in the final act, the company “AS Senjak” of Ahmeti’s in-law officially sells its shares in the Bitola bank precisely to Davor Macura and his Alta Bank, thereby enabling him to directly take over the bank in Macedonia. In June, Ahmeti’s family business network takes a 5-million-euro loan from Macura from Belgrade. And in September, Ahmeti’s in-law, through “AS Senjak,” sells the shares to that same Macura so that he can enter Alta Bank Macedonia and cash in millions, VMRO-DPMNE stated.