VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski held a press conference today to point out to the numerous failures of the state prosecutors in investigating the major racketeering scandals that are being revealed and include top officials of the Zaev regime. According to Mickoski, the investigation so far looks more like a cover up.
One of the major issues pointed by Mickoski is the confirmation from Racket suspects that at one point they were tipped off by Government sources that they were reported and are finally under investigation. Businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev tried to take the blame for this and said that he initially reported the racketeers to the prosecutors, on advice from Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, but then warned them about what he has done, but this claim has fallen flat.
According to media reports, it is noted that the chief suspect Bojan Jovanovski (Boki 13) became especially anxious when he was told by Government sources that the businessman he was extorting money from has reported him to the police. This confirms that the Government and its leadership were in close contact with the prime suspect Jovanovski. Who could’ve given him this type of information?, Mickoski asked.
The opposition leader asked the state prosecutors why are they not investigating Jovanovski’s claim that he has video recordings that can shed the light on who carried off the Louis Vuitton bag with one millon EUR from his home. The eventual destination of the bag has not been revealed to the public yet, and prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska has not been clear if she is even investigating this element of the scandal.
Additional scandals involving the group and their associates have also been ignored, Mickoski said. These include the fact that there are no charges against Aleksandar Kiracovski, who was removed as SDSM party Secretary General as the revelations about him began to multiply. There is no investigation into Boki 13’s alleged attempt to install the head of a major company, co-owned by the Macedonian Government, using an investigation of his friend Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva as leverage.
This apointment would not be possible without the Government getting involved. This opens another suspicion that Bojan Jovanovski had serious backing in the Ilindenska building (the Government seat). Where is Zoran Zaev to testify about this case?, Mickoski asked.
Other Government officials who were close with Boki 13 and were named in the scandal include the likes of Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, who is also facing private charges of extortion and racketeering in the Racket 2 case.
A businessman was willing to go on the record and claim that healthcare officials were extorting money from him. The tentacles of this scandal lead all the way to Zaev’s Strumica, an angle of the case that is yet to be investigated, Mickoski said.
Mickoski named a series of other recent scandals in the healthcare, such as bribery in medicine procurement and the destruction of already bought insulin, which are left un-investigated. Other scandals of the Zaev regime include the TE-TO investigation of money laundering with Russian businessmen allegedly worth 200 million EUR, the M-NAV scandal, the medevac helicopter contract and many others.
There is no official response to all these scandals because the mafia and the Government are now one and the same, the mafia and the prosecutors are one and the same. The public needs to focus on these questions, which the Government is trying to get away from. The truth will be painful to the Government and I’m certain it will come out. After it does, there will have to be accountability, the opposition leader warned.
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