Financial Police director Arafat Muaremi was filmed threatening to abuse his power and to intimidate the municipal authorities in Skopje’s Sopiste municipality – simply because they are led by the VMRO-DPMNE party.

In the video recording, that was released by VMRO-DPMNE today, Muaremi is seen addressing a group of supporters in a village in Sopiste, telling them that he will “send an inspection and the job will be done” – a clear indication that he will pressure the Mayor of Sopiste Stefce Trpkovski.

This is brutal abuse of office. Days ago this same person initiated a case against the Mayor of Petrovec Borce Mitevski. This is how SDSM operates – instead of offering infrastructure projects, they want to compete using threats and abuses, VMRO-DPMNE said in a press release.