Tag: customs
Macedonia 05.11.24 | 16:22

Nikolovski: Seizures have increased by 48 percent, new Protocol has been prepared with PSB for joint action

The number of cases involving seizures in the past four months has increased by 48 percent, and cooperation at the national and international levels has been significantly improved. A new protocol has been drafted with the Public Security Bureau (PSB) with the support of the OSCE, all with the aim of...
Macedonia 16.10.24 | 19:12

15 customs officers detained for taking bribes

A total of 14 active and one retired customs officers and one police officer were detained in the large police raid conducted in Gevgelija and Strumica yesterday. The officers are suspected of taking bribes – a total of 50,000 EUR were seized in the operation. Police raided 26 sites in the region,...
Economy 14.10.24 | 19:06

Rise in revenue collection opens doors to salary increases, Finance Minister says

Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska said that the increase in revenue will help increase public sector salaries in the future. She pointed to the nearly 10 percent increase in Customs Office revenue as evidence that the institutions are now managed much better and that corruption is...
Macedonia 06.08.24 | 23:38

Government announces new appointments

This evening the Government announced several new appointments. After being nominated by the Agriculture Ministry, the Government named Romeo Trenov new head of the Water Management Bureau. Suzana Jordanovska is being named head of the State Sanitary Laboratory. Fikret Hoxha is acting director of the...
Economy 10.08.23 | 20:47

Bonds whose seizure was announced by Customs director Bogoev are actually worthless

The announcement from the Customs Office director Stefan Bogoev, that his institution seized bonds worth 92 million EUR confused the public. The documents were taken from a Turkish passenger, Bogoev informed, announcing it as a major seizure of contraband. Today, VMRO-DPMNE issued a statement citing...
Macedonia 11.07.23 | 20:24

Banned single use gas canisters seized at the border with Greece

Customs agents prevented the importing of 1,150 canisters of freon, weighing over 13 tons. The gas was packed in single use cylinders, which are banned in this country as harmful to the environment. One person has been detained at the Bogorodica crossing with Greece and a company is being investigated.
Macedonia 23.06.23 | 12:54

Instead of investigating the DUI mafia, Kovachevski will audit the typewriters

Following PM Kovachevski request for property audit of all Customs and PRO employees, the managers of these institutions announced stricter  controls. The trade unions assesses the PM’s request – at a time when strikes for higher salaries have already started – as threat and a pressure...
Macedonia 14.03.23 | 20:35

Former Customs director Daravelski released from prison, the case is dropped due to statute of limitations

The criminal court in Skopje today found that former Customs Bureau director Dragan Daravelski will walk free, as the criminal case against him has reached the statute of limitations. Daravelski was head of the Customs in the Ljubco Georgievski Government, in the late 1990ies and early 2000s, and was...
Macedonia 10.01.23 | 22:23

Dragan Daravelski may avoid serving out his prison sentence

Dragan Daravelski, former head of the Macedonian Customs who has been evading extradition in Serbia for two decades, will likely avoid serving out his sentence. Daravelski, son of former Parliament Speaker Tomislav Stojanovski and former high level VMRO-DPMNE official from the days of Prime Minister...
Macedonia 21.12.21 | 22:13

Skopje court orders a month of detention for the customs officers who were working for the Albanian narco mafia

The Skopje court decided to order eight of the defendants arrested in a major drug bust today into detention of one month. The ninth defendant will be detained for eight days. The group is made mostly of police officers and customs agents who were arrested in a broad operation today. They are suspected...
Macedonia 09.12.21 | 18:37

Customs Office confirms that prosecutors are investigating the major drug smuggling scandal

The Customs Office informed the press that organized crime prosecutors are investigating the allegations that a ton of hard drugs was allowed to enter Macedonia, through the Skopje airport, carried under police escort. The allegation was made by VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki, who said that the drugs...
Macedonia 06.12.21 | 12:56

Kovacki: One month of silence from the Prosecution, the Ministry of Interior and the Customs for the smuggling of one ton of drugs through the Skopje airport

There is no end to the scandals and crimes of the hybrid regime. Every day we have a new scandal from the most criminal government. This new scandal related to the Ministry of Interior and Customs gives the full picture why the Republic of Macedonia is on the 111th place on the scale of the corruption...
Macedonia 26.08.21 | 10:44

Zaev names one of the officials named in the Racket scandal as head of the Customs Office

Stefan Bogoev, the incumbent Mayor of Karpos, will be named as new head of the Customs Office by the Zaev regime, as he was withdrawn from the mayoral race in favor of Dusko Veskovski, the current director of the Skopje water utility company. Bogoev faced serious criminal allegations because of his involvement...
Macedonia 29.12.20 | 11:28

Government initiates a new hiring spree

Government departments are pushing massive new hiring. After the Defense Ministry announced contracts for 200 new soldiers, the Interior Ministry issued a bid for 600 new police officers and the Customs Agency plans to hire 119 border agents. The new police officers will be distributed in Skopje (100),...
Macedonia Economy 30.10.20 | 17:22

Sharp drop in the number of imported cars

Import of used cars has dropped by 42 percent over the first nine months of 2020. The Customs office said that only 11,000 cars were imported in this period, compared to 26,000 in 2019. As for new cars, the number of imports dropped from 6,300 to 3,800. Besides the coronavirus crisis, a big reason for...
Macedonia 07.07.20 | 22:50

Two customs agents caught with a large bribe

Two customs agents were caught today with a large sum of money, estimated at between 15 and 20 thousand EUR, reports Infomax. According to the news site, the two female agents are suspected of asking for a bribe from the owner of a forwarding company. When caught by the internal control, the two could...
Economy 09.04.20 | 13:48

Tanasoski: Import taxes drop in March, vegetable and fruit exports up

The coronavirus crisis, decrease in excise goods consumption and lower oil derivatives’ prices have led to a 10-percent average drop of import taxes in March, compared to the same month in 2019. Cross-border trade is continual, with vegetable and fruit exports on the rise, said Customs Administration...
Macedonia 01.02.20 | 11:30

Macedonian Customs can’t vouch for the safety of all junk shipments coming from Europe

Macedonian Customs director Gjoko Tanasovski said that he can’t vouch for the safety of every shipment of garbage that is imported in Macedonia, and that it will be up to the prosecutors to ensure the safety of the citizens. His comments come as the Fridays for Future movement protested yesterday,...
Macedonia 30.07.19 | 13:27

Two customs officers arrested over a 70 EUR bribe

Two customs officers from Kumanovo were detained after they tried to get a bribe of 70 EUR from a German citizen. The officers wouldn’t allow the man driving a pickup truck from entering Macedonia from Serbia at the Kumanovo border crossing until he paid the required sum. After paying, the man...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 15:53

Zaev removes Skopje Customs director who let Boki 13 off the hook when he was caught smuggling designer shoes

Among those replaced in Zoran Zaev’s latest purge of public officials is Zlatko Kofilovski, the head of the Skopje Customs Office. Kofilovski was in the news in the spring of 2018, when it was reported that he stopped a customs procedure against Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, who was caught...
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