Tag: software
Macedonia 12.09.23 | 12:35

The government purchased 70% more expensive software licenses from a company involved in the jailed former secretary general’s scandals

SDSM continues with its crimes unabated – they engaged the same company the former government’s Secretary General, now sentenced to a long jail term, used to purchase software worth €15 million, to purchase software, this time for €26 million, MRO-DPMNE informed on Tuesday. The company...
Macedonia 24.03.22 | 18:12

Raskovski sent out a morbid message while trying to rig a contract – Get this wrong and I will kill myself

Zoran Zaev’s former chief of staff Dragi Raskovski, who is now charged with corruption, sent out a message strongly pushing his associates to have a software deal approved that would net him hundreds of thousands of euros. Raskovski was Secretary General of the Government when the deal to purchase...
Macedonia 29.04.21 | 09:40

The fourth suspect in the Raskovski case is a FINKI professor and a government freelancer

The fourth suspect in the case of traffic software procurement involving former Government Secretary General Dragi Raskovski is a FINKI professor and a freelancer hired by the Government, BIRN reported. He was in charge of preparing the technical specification of the tender, ie the prosecutors suspect...
Macedonia 16.04.21 | 13:48

How Zaev defended Raskovski: “The software was procured legally”

There are legitimate reasons why this was done. There are documents that will reveal why the software was procured. It is done to conduct in depth traffic analysis for the Interior Ministry. We did not just got up and decide to make a software, there was a reason for it. And if it is not in use now,...
Macedonia 18.03.21 | 19:27

Organized crime prosecutors are investigating Zaev’s adviser Dragi Raskovski

The organized crimes unit of the OJO office of public prosecutors announced that it is investigating the purchase of software for 80,000 EUR that the Interior Ministry signed with top SDSM party official Dragi Raskovski. Raskovski, a top confidant of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and an IT professor, was...
Macedonia 10.03.21 | 22:08

No procedure was violated in the software procurement and there is no conflict of interest, claims the Government

The Government issued Wednesday evening a statement saying that the procurement of a software for for monitoring traffic speeds had been carried out with all detailed procedures through an open and public tender procedure. The statement states that no public procurement procedure was violated during...
Macedonia 10.03.21 | 17:53

Government paid about 400 thousand euros to the “Invoca” software company, which doesn’t have its own website

A software company without its own website and contact information works on maintaining computer programs of dozens of state institutions. It is the “Invoca Group” company from which the General Secretariat of the Government purchased a software for monitoring traffic speeds, Radio Free Europe...
News 10.03.21 | 12:22

Interior Ministry paid Zaev’s adviser for software it didn’t need?

A new scandal is developing around Zoran Zaev’s adviser and former Secretary General in his Government Dragi Raskovski. Raskovski is a professor of information technology at Skopje’s Law Faculty and holds a patent in a software for monitoring traffic speeds. Several news outlets have reported...
Macedonia 08.01.19 | 20:03

Makraduli unrepentant over family contracts which would destroy a European politician

Deputy Environment Minister Jani Makraduli insists that his wife Maja Makraduli has the right to apply (and win) public procurement contracts even though he holds a high Government position and could use it to influence the outcome of the bids. After it was revealed that a software company co-owned by...

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