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Macedonia 13.05.21 | 20:19

Butel Mayor bids tearful fairwell to the gunned down mobster

Butel Mayor Velimir Smilevski confirmed that he was very close to the mobster Kamer Idrizi, who was machine-gunned to death with his nephew yesterday in Skopje. Idrizi was close to the ruling SDSM party and was often pictured with Smilevski, people from the Mayor’s entourage, in some instances brandishing...

Macedonia 26.12.19 | 11:31

Butel Mayor Smilevski lies to the press that his cousin is an ethnic Albanian to excuse the hiring of his wife

Velimir Smilevski, Mayor of Skopje’s Butel district who was elected on the ticket of the ruling SDSM party, made a shocking statement when pressed on the recent practice of ethnic Macedonians declaring themselves to be Albanians or Roma to gain public sector employment. Albanian journalists asked...