A scandal shakes the Macedonian state apparatus after the Albanian TV Klan filmed Macedonian customs officers taking bribes from the television crew. The Klan crew paid 120 euros for the customs officer to let six Albanian citizens into the country without any checks at the border crossing.

A businessman, who deals with passenger transport, addressed TV Klan, specifically the show “Stop”, with information that he was asked for a bribe for a service that should be free of charge by the custom officers. He suffered enormous pressure from the Macedonian customs.

I am an Albanian businessman who transports cars and people inside and outside the country. We have many problems with the Macedonian customs officers. Not only bribes, but we give them salaries every day, from 500 euros, 700 euros per car. The tariff for each passenger was 50 euros, but now it has dropped to 20 euros. Bribe! For every person. I carry 20-30 passengers. For each passenger, 20 euros must be paid, the businessman told “Klan”.

The “Stop” show crew then went to the Blace border crossing to uncover corruption there, and a bribe of 20 euros per person was demanded from the crew.

Unofficially, the person is E.Sh. a police officer at the Blace crossing, who in 2019 called the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, an icon.

The part with the bribe starts at 13 minutes, it is preceded by the testimony of the businessman who was a daily victim of the custom officers.