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Macedonia 31.10.24 | 08:09

Companies linked to Ahmeti and Zaev received suspicious “innovation grants”

The investigation into the notoriously corrupt FITR Innovation Fund shows that companies linked to the top officials of SDSM and DUI were receiving grants for fraudulent “innovations”. According to the Plusinfo news site, two companies from Strumica linked to Zaev were receiving “innovation...
Macedonia 29.10.24 | 19:24

Corruption scandals in the Innovation Fund worth millions of euros

Contracts signed with about 60 companies are being investigated by the new management of the FITR fund for innovations and technological development. The contracts, worth 3.2 million EUR, appear to be bogus, said newly appointed director of this institution Nikola Dodov. Dodov added that the previous...
Macedonia 26.09.20 | 21:06

Company owned by SDSM party official received major contract from the controversial Innovation Fund

A design company owned by an SDSM party member of the Skpje city council has received contracts from the controversial Innovation Fund worth hundreds of thousands of euros, VMRO-DPMNE said in a press release. The company is known as Brigada Design and is owned by Bojan Ivanovic, who is an outspoken SDSM...
Macedonia 26.12.19 | 11:13

Controversial public institution confirms it hired the daughter of a member of Parliament who voted for the name change

Despite initial claims and denials, the Innovation Fund (FITR) today confirmed that it has hired Sara Aleksandrova, the daughter of member of Parliament Emilija Aleksandrova. The mother was elected on the VMRO-DPMNE ticket, but was expelled from the party when she voted in favor of renaming Macedonia...
Macedonia 22.12.19 | 18:45

Innovation Fund, best known for awarding politically linked “innovators”, announces new grants before the elections

With just a few months before the early elections, the Innovations Fund (FITR) announced it will award new grants to private companies. FITR is notorious for giving money to politically linked “innovators”, including companies directly linked to members of the Government and Parliament and...
Macedonia 29.09.19 | 19:30

Company once linked to the Zaev family won a large innovation grant presenting a stolen idea as its own, VMRO reveals

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski claims that the PowerAd company, which won 220.000 EUR in an “innovation grant”, had violated copyright from an American company. The PowerAd company was co-owned by Elenica, one of the companies ran by the Zaev family, until a few months before it won...

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