Travel agency “Orfej” has not paid rent for the premises it uses downtown Skopje for years, and the Joint Stock Company for Managing Residential and Business Premises has illegally renounced the debt and allowed the company to use the premises without paying rent.

By doing so, the director of the legal department of this state-owned company, Jon Frckoski – son of Ljubomir Frckoski and vice president of SDMM, committed a crime and damaged the budget by about 3 million denars, show the documents published by “Ekonomski Lider“.

As of September 22, 2005, the travel agency “Orfej” has been using a state-owned facility operated by Joint Stock Company for Managing Residential and Business Premises. The contract this company had with the state provided for enforcement, or activation of the enforcement agent, if it did not pay the rent costs.

Because “Orfej” did not pay rent, an executive decision was activated on April 24, 2015, and the company was given to an enforcement agent. According to all legal procedures, the company should then be evicted from the facility and the enforcement agent withdraw money from its account.

But instead of paying the state debt, the Joint Stock Company for Managing Residential and Business Premises decided to suspend enforcement.

Namely, at the 31st meeting of the Board of Directors of this state-owned company, held on December 14, 2018, it was decided to send to the notary public a request to abolish the executive clause in the contract with “Orfej” and to conclude an agreement on how “Orfej” will pay the debt.

This decision itself could not be realized under normal circumstances, because under Macedonian law only the court can suspend enforcement. However, Jon Frckoski, Director of the Legal Department of the Joint Stock Company for Managing Residential and Business Premises went a step further, and on January 22, 2019, officially signed a document requesting him to stop the enforcement. The same day, for incomprehensible reasons, it was accepted by the notary public Stela Lazarevska.

But the story of abuse of office does not end there. The young Frckoski managed to find a loophole and failed to implement the second part of the board’s decision – to date neither a new contract nor an agreement on the debt has been made with “Orfej”.

This practically means that the travel agency has no obligation to pay the debt to the state since the enforcement clause has been abolished and there is no way the state can collect the money owed by this private legal entity. At the same time, “Orfej” continues to use the premises without paying rent.

According to “Ekonomski Lider”, the Joint Stock Company for Managing Residential and Business Premises has damaged the budget for around 3 million denars, which due to the legal wisdom of the young Frckoski, the state now cannot collect.

The BPPO is expected to initiate proceedings about the case.

The full documentation for this case can be found at the following link.