Tag: Skopje 2014

At today’s meeting to coordinate investigations into financial irregularities, Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva said that the SPO were looking into possible criminal activities in several European countries. “I hope that we will discover which direction the money has flowed to or whether they are in Macedonia”, said Janeva and pointed out that they are investigating financial crime in the Czech...

SPO's public prosecutor, Fatime Fetai in an interview for the "360 Degrees" TV Show on Alsat M, said that the "unfortunate Artice 22" from the Law on the SPO is limiting this prosecution currently from pressing new charges, but formally it doesn't limit it to start new investigations. She announced that it is possible that some of the started...

The Ministry of Culture from the working group received the first elaborates of Andon Janev – Koseto monuments from the court complex "Mother Theresa" and the "Warrior of the Horse" at "Macedonia" square, said Minister of Culture, Robert Alagjozovski, who today took part in the conference for the European Union’s project, "Creative Europe". The elaborates, Alagjozovski said, will be forwarded to...

The centre of Skopje is not an amusement park, and the place for a panoramic wheel is in an amusement park, and not by the riverbed of the Vardar river, stated SDSM candidate for mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Shilegov. He said that if he becomes mayor, he will consult the public with expertise on all decisions. “That way...

We look upon the "Skopje 2014" project as a virus that first has to be quarantined, to be treated in isolation, and then we shall decide what we can do with this project in near future, said today the Minister of Culture Robert Alagjozovski at the press conference regarding his first 100 days in office. He informed that a...

The rebalancing of the budget is cutting the unnecessary and expensive expenditures, and the money is returned back to the citizens. With the rebalancing, funds will be provided for a permanent solution for the problem with the redundant workers and starting from September, around 70 000 citizens will receive a higher minimum wage in amount of 12.000 and the...

The maintenance of the structures of the “Skopje 2014” project is just as expensive as their demolition, and accordingly, the basic assumption when the construction of this project began, that as a project it would save the Government money for rent, has been confuted, said the Minister of Culture, Robert Alagjozovski, at today's debate on the future of  the...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office has confiscated documents from the National Archive, regarding one of their preliminary investigations, reported "Telma" TV. The SPO would not comment on what type of documents they were looking for, nor would they comment for what case their preliminary investigation is for. Filip Petrovski, the Director of the National Archive stated that the documents were related to...

This is pure political theatre organized by the SDSM and supported by the Special Prosecutor's Office, said the Minister of Culture Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska, while leaving the Criminal Court, after Tuesday's hearing of the "Tenders" case. Kanceska-Milevska spent two hours in court. She stated that she has the same viewpoint of the statement she made last Thursday and at today's hearing,...

The Minister of Culture, Elizabeta Kancheska-Milevska was today called as a witness by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which she confirmed herself after being questioned for three hours and a half. She briefly stated that this was an opportunity for her to confirm and emphasize the legal work of the Ministry of Culture. During today’s questioning, Kancheska-Milevska did not want to...

The good news is that we are here today and the audit reports are finally in the right hands and we can expect justice to be served, stated the Mayor of the Municipality of the Center, Andrej Zernovski, in a statement he gave today at the Special Public Prosecutor's Office in connection with the project "Skopje 2014". He said that...

The Mayor of the Center, Andrej Zernovski on Tuesday, has been called to the Special Prosecutor's Office where he is expected to give a statement about the projects in the DUP (Detailed Urban Plan) "Mal Ring", said the Municipality of the Center. "It's an area in the city center, where there are monuments and buildings from the government project "Skopje...

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRNP) released the report „Skopje 2014 investigated“. It says in it that the Ministry of Culture and the Government’s Service for General and Common Works have spent most of the funds on the Skopje 2014 project, because they figure as investors in some of the largest buildings: The VMRO Museum, the Old Theater, the...

"The controversial project" Skopje 2014 "continues to function as a financial "bottomless pit" where the money of citizens of the Republic of Macedonia disappear. Today, the question whether such irrational spending of state money will ever come to an end is justified, because now it is the year 2015, and the project continues to spend millions of euros in...