Tag: taseva
Macedonia 23.07.21 | 21:26

Ahead of the elections, the SDSM Government increased hiring in the public sector eight times

Transparency International – Macedonia warns that the SDSM led coalition is stuffing the public sector with new employees in the run up to the municipal elections in October. Many of the new openings are for party activists who expect to be reimbursed for supporting the ruling parties. There were...

Macedonia 21.04.21 | 12:00

Taseva: The mafia passports scandal shows that Macedonia was enabling international organized crime

The mafia passports scandal speaks very poorly about Macedonia and shows that we placed ourselves as protectors of international, high level organized crime and allowed criminals to move freely in pursuit of their activities, Sladjana Taseva, from the Macedonian branch of the Transparency International...

Macedonia 11.03.21 | 14:21

Corruption watchdogs call for investigation into Zaev’s Chinese vaccines deal

The Anti-Corruption Commission (DKSK) decided to investigate the failed purchase of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines from China. The deal is the center of a major new corruption scandal involving the Zaev regime, after it was revealed that Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce tried to use a shell company registered...

Macedonia 18.02.21 | 22:11

Transparency International head: I’m not very popular with the Government after the latest corruption report

Slagjana Taseva, head of Transparency International – Macedonia, said that she is “not very popular” with the Government after exposing their serious levels of crime and corruption. Taseva’s agency leads the work on the report that this year found the worst ever result for Macedonia...

News 01.02.21 | 23:21

“Corruption has become a way of life, Transparency International report needs to be taken seriously”

Slagjana Taseva, head of the Transparency International – Macedonia organization, said that the latest report of the organization which caused a shock in the country is based on seven investigations conducted during 2019 and 2020. The report found Macedonia ranked 111th based on the prevalence...

Macedonia 29.01.21 | 11:31

Transparency International calls on the Government to take the problem of corruption seriously, after it tried to dismiss the latest highly critical report

After the Zaev Government issued a statement denouncing the dismal Transparency International report as “mere perception” that corruption is running amok in Macedonia, the local head of the corruption watchdog gave her response. Slagjana Taseva, director of Transparency International –...

Macedonia 12.08.19 | 17:31

Anti-corruption activist Taseva says prosecutor’s approach to Katica Janeva is somewhere between unusual and actual obstruction

Slagjana Taseva from the Transparency International groups sharply criticized the decision by OJO state prosecutors to use up their summer breaks at a time when they should be investigating the major corruption scandal, not to mention their decision to allow Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who is one...

Macedonia 01.07.19 | 17:32

Taseva calls on Zaev’s Secretary General to explain what he was doing discussing a major public procurement

Slagana Taseva, head of the Macedonian anti-corruption organization Transparency International asked the Government’s Secretary General Dragi Raskovski what exactly was he doing at a meeting that covered a sizable public procurement. Raskovski is in the heart of corruption allegations after a leaked...