It was proved that the defendants committed the acts which they are charged with. Something that really started as a charity turned into something else. The first defendant Bojan Jovanovski did not accidentally choose Jasna Ercegovic, Hristina Blazevska and Frosina Remenski as collaborators, who had a great influence, said the representative of the prosecution Trajce Pelivanov in his closing arguments in the “International Association” case.

According to him, the damaged Siljan Micevski and Adrijan Amzoski were deceived by Bojan Jovanovski that retirement homes would be built, telling them that he would provide state land even though he knew he could not provide it, but he still took money from them. The then mayors of Karpos and Bitola also had told him that.

Jovanovski tried to deceive Orce Kamcev by convincing him to enter a project for construction of a shopping center, but the witness was not interested, the prosecutor explained.

According to him, the defendants tried to leave a good impression on the public in order to extract as much money as possible from the victims.

Pelivanov also spoke about the meetings between Jovanovski and the then Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.

The then Prime Minister only encouraged cooperation but not that there was concrete cooperation, says Pelivanov.

According to the defendant, the victims had security in the project due to Remenski, who at that time was the vice president of the Parliament and SDSM.

Ramenski instilled confidence that the government was backing Jovanovski’s projects, Pelivanov said.