I know Bojan Jovanovski aka Boki 13 from a few years ago. I remember in the second half of January 2019 with a company I was sitting in the Krug coffee bar when Boki showed up and approached us to say hello. He told me that we need to meet these days, according to the statement of one of the people summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office for organized crime and corruption in relation to the Racket affair, which directly links the government to Boki 13 and Katica Janeva’s racket spree, Infomax reported late on Friday.

That senior government officials were aware of the activities of Boki 13 and Katica Janeva, the new portal indicates that it can be clearly seen from a statement given in relation to  Racket case by a former director of one of the largest telecommunications companies in the Republic of Macedonia. The witness explains that Boki 13 told him that the government was ready to help him become director of Makedonski Telekom, and in return he should award tenders to companies that Boki would tell him.

He further explained that Boki 13 scheduled a meeting with him in his 1TV office for Junuary 31, 2019 through Zoran Milevski, where the both of them were waiting for him.

First we started talking about general topics, after which Boki said that the government was not satisfied with the current CEO of Telekom and that they wanted to appointed me as CEO, the witness said in his statement.

He explains that he told Boki and Zoki that since he had been working in the telecommunications business for a long time that the CEO of Telekom was appointed by Deutsche Telekom, which also owns Makedonski Telekom. He explained that the government can be consulted, but not necessarily.

Boki and Zoki said that it could be arranged that the government could help me be appointed CEO and if I was in Telekom Macedonia they were waiting for the realization of several projects to be signed and I should give those projects to companies that Boki will tell me, said the potential CEO in his testimony before the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption.

He explained that tenders cannot be awarded to companies, especially since the ownership structure of Makedonski Telekom also includes the state. It was possible for the previous company where he was a director to award tenders to whom he wanted, but only because it was purely private.

But Boki insisted that he was backed by the Government and that everything would be settled, the witness said.

After receiving no response to the offer, Boki started his classic racket telling the witness that he (Boki) knew that he was contacting Kontominas.

I remember shortly after Zoki Milevski came out of the office, talked to someone on the phone, came back, after which Boki told me he knew I was contacting Contominas and to get in touch with him, he says in his testimony.

When asked why, Boki replied that the Telekom case had been taken over by the SPO and that they were going to launch an investigation against Kontominas’ grandson, Mihalis Kefalogiannis, because Mihalis was a member of the Telekom board of directors. The witness explained to Boki that the Telekom case had been outdated and that there could be no investigation, to which Boki responded that there were things that had not been outdated.

Boki then told me that there were things that were not outdated and that the SPO would launch a serious investigation, including into Mihalis Kefalogiannis. I told him that Mihalis‘ charges had been dropped during the previous government, and then Boki took the phone, dialed a number and put the call on speaker, the witness said.

The witness further explains that on the other side of the line was Katica Janeva, and that he was shocked by Boki’s attitude towards Katica. She allegedly behaved as if she were Boki Tredici’s subordinate.

He said “Katica, I’m sitting with people in relation to the Telekom case, that you took over, is it not outdated and the Supreme Court that declared them outdated is the person, you know, Mihalis Kefalogiannis, the Greek, they dropped his case, wasn’t that not over and you are starting from the beginning,” says the witness his statement.

Katica replied that the case had been listed and that the SPO had been working on the case.

Yes, Lile listed the case, and we are working on it, Katica told Boki, says the witness and goes on: After that Boki said, ‘Ok, we are meeting tonight anyway and I’ll explain everything to you …’.

The witness was shocked by what he had heard, so he told Boki that  if he called Kontominas what he should say to him, how much for the job to be done – a million or two.

To which Boki responded, what a million or two, you have to pay a lot more, it’s a big case. He also told me that otherwise Mihalis would be on Interpol’s list and that he would not be able to leave Greece. Here I would like to make it clear that the Contominas family is very influential in Greece and New Democracy, and they are also very influential in Europe, and they are extremely wealthy, the witness says in his statement to the prosecution.

He also said in his testimony that Boki said would arrange with the editors of his television station to get this case grounds for persecution if the terms were not meet.

When the meeting was over, Boki scheduled a new meeting the same day at 4 pm. at the Alexander Palace Hotel restaurant.

When I arrived Boki and Zoki were already seated and we were talking again about the topic of I becoming Telekom CEO. He finally told me ‘Think about it, than we can make calls, meet and also set up a meeting in the Government’, says the witness in his statement to the prosecution.

The witness further explains that he had been thinking a lot about whether to call Contominas because he was embarrassed to do so”… because Boki on the one hand boasted of his close relations with the Prime Minister and the entire Government, and on the other hand that a special public prosecutor could be involved in such matters, explained the witness who was offered to be CEO of Makedonski Telekom.

I have nothing else to add, concluded the witness in his statement before Prosecutor’s Office Vilma Ruskovska.

Never, even if the life of person who knows the truth is at stake, it has she remained hidden. The attempts of the Prime Minister, the Prosecutor and members of the Government of SDSM to discredit me, the media whose editor-in-chief I am and Zoran Zaev’s request to apologize are futile. To apologize to the Prime Minister for what? Because I have conveyed the truth? I did not give these statements to the prosecution, these statements were given by people who were victims of the Racket affair. Let them persecute them, he will not get an apologize from me and the medium I run, nor from anyone else for whom there are indications that they were involved in any suspicious activities, journalist Aleksandar Mitovski concludes his text published on Infomax.

Source: Infomax