Tag: amdi
Macedonia 18.11.21 | 10:52

Bitcoin mining scandal: Crime committed by Zaev’s coalition partner and bodyguard is being covered up by the police

After the aborted police raid in Skopje’s GTC shopping mall yesterday, the question of whether politicians close to the Zaev regime are going to be investigated for apparent mining of bitcoin using stolen electricity. The raid was conducted after the Infomax news site filmed the set of bitcoin mining...

Macedonia 24.10.20 | 22:35

Amdi Bajram had the coronavirus when he died, the family is now reportedly planning a large funeral

The Healthcare Ministry confirmed media reports that politician Amdi Bajram, who died today, was positive to the coronavirus. The Ministry will now work to track down anybody who has been in intense contact with Bajram in the past days. The issue is greatly complicated by the fact that Bajram staged...

Macedonia 24.10.20 | 15:02

Colorful politician Amdi Bajram dead at 64

Amdi Bajram, a long standing Roma political leader in Macedonia, has died aged 64. It is being reported that Bajram died at the “Philip II” clinic in Skopje, from heart disease, and rumors are being spread that he may also have had the coronavirus. He suffered from diabetes and other health...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 15:58

Two politicians anger the public after travelling abroad to hold elaborate, masks optional weddings

Two politicians from the ruling coalition brazenly violated coronavirus restrictions to stage elaborate weddings. One of them is the Mayor of Centar Sasa Bogdanovic. He used the recent reopening of the border with Kosovo to marry his fiance in the Gracanica monastery, in a massive wedding that, as photographs...

Macedonia 11.10.20 | 10:38

Party leader shamed into canceling his granddaughter’s wedding

Longtime leading Macedonian Roma politician Amdi Bajram had to cancel the wedding of his granddaughter’s Perjan after social media outrage at the preparations for the mass event. The invitations were leaked online, amid worries about the serious spike in coronavirus cases. Weddings, concerts and...

Macedonia 28.02.20 | 18:55

SDSM coalition partner endorses electoral fraud

Amdi Bajram, the leader of the SRM Roma party that is allied with the ruling SDSM party, openly endorsed electoral fraud for the coming early elections. In an address to party supporters, Bajram called on them to stuff the ballot boxes. We know how we do it. We all go out at 7 and we fill the boxes....

Macedonia 29.10.19 | 15:04

Amdi Bajram denies reports that he is leaving the SDSM led coalition and will seek to rejoin VMRO-DPMNE

Amdi Bajram, leader of the Roma Alliance of Macedonia, dismissed reports that he is negotiating a return to the VMRO-DPMNE led coalition which he abandoned in 2017. Bajram spoke to the press after VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski said that a number of parties which currently sit with SDSM have approached...