Tag: kovacevski
Macedonia 09.11.21 | 20:57

Energy crisis: ELEM director Kovacevski was supposed to be dismissed last week, but chaos in the Government delayed this decision

The Government planned to fire Vasko Kovacevski, Zaev’s director of the ELEM energy producing company, but did not get around to it given the growing political criis, Faktor.mk reports. Kovacevski is a powerful SDSM party operator from Bitola, accused of allowing companies linked to the Zaev family...

Macedonia 15.07.21 | 12:23

VMRO candidate Spiro Mavrovski warns SDSM leaders in Bitola they will soon be cast out by their own party after numerous corruption scandals

Former VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Spiro Mavrovski announced his candidacy for Mayor of Bitola. In an interview with Republika sent out a friendly warning to the current cadre of local leaders from the ruling SDSM party, particularly to the director of the large ELEM energy company Vasko Kovacevski,...

Macedonia Economy 23.11.20 | 21:16

Macedonia gives up on its planned investment in the Bulgarian Belene nuclear plant, and will invest in a Greek gas plant instead

Vasko Kovacevski, manager of the state owned ELEM energy company, announced that it is abandoning plans to invest in the Bulgarian Belene nuclear plant, and will invest in a gas fired plant in Greece instead. The nuclear option was being developed for a while, and it would’ve included Macedonia...

Macedonia 21.06.20 | 11:19

VMRO accuses ELEM director Kovacevski of racketeering

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski accused the head of the state owned ELEM energy company Vasko Kovacevski of extorting 250.000 EUR from a company that was working on a contract with ELEM’s main power plant – REK Bitola. Earlier this week Interior Minister Nake Culev confirmed that the...

Macedonia 19.06.20 | 13:18

Head of ESM (ELEM) investigated for extortion

Interior Minister Nake Culev announced that the Ministry is investigating extortion charges against a top SDSM party official for abuse of his position in the REK Bitola coal plant. Culev did not name the official directly, but it’s clear he is talking about Vasko Kovacevski, who was made head...