Posts by Goran Lefkov:
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Samsonenko: Successful in Macedonia-under scrutiny in Russia
DOCUMENTATION author: Goran Lefkov His story for coming to Macedonia is full of coincidence. The Russian businessman Sergei Samsonenko has been attractive to the macedonian public, especially the journalists, since the moment when he registered the first firm in Skopje. “So we went out, I saw, it was about 5th October, 2-3 days plus or minus, it should have been warm, but it was cold, it was very...
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Political parties or business groups?
By donating 300 thousand denars, 44-year-old lawyer Arber Isaku decided, with his own financial resources, to contribute to the victory of the Democratic Union for Integration in the snap elections held in April 2014. He stands as one of the 13 contributors to the report of the State Audit Office. In those elections, DUI won 19 MPs and continued to be a partner in the VMRO-DPMNE government. Two years...
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VMRO-DPMNE one of the richest parties in Europe
SCOOP in April this year published and mapped title deeds of all four main political parties in Macedonia. That article with supporting documents can be found here. VMRO-DPMNE is a leader in Europe according to the square meters it possesses as a political party. It has 93 title deeds for party seats around the country with 33,238 square meters in buildings, agricultural land and pastures. According to the...
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Corruption in the Macedonian football
On 29 July 2012 Ilco Gjorgjioski was elected as new president of the Football Federation. He is former player and national team coach. A good background and a good start by then. Unfortunately, a period of the largest decline of football in the country started with him becoming a president. Macedonia has dropped 36 places for 4 years. In July 2012, when Gjorgjioski became president of FFM, the country...
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Anti-corruption in crisis: 520 thousand euro and just one charge
After the Parliament passed the Law on Corruption Prevention in 2002 a special commission was formed in the country with a wide range of authorities to combat this negative phenomenon. At that time, when corruption became the biggest threat to democracy, this commission was a hope that this social evil will finally start clearing. “Do not forget, it was one of the first anti-corruption institutions in the region and...
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SCANDAL: Journalists – “a security threat” to SCPC
“You are a threat to the security of the institution and cannot enter it”. This unpleasant answer was given to the team of SCOOP-Macedonia on April 6, 2016 by a person who introduced himself as the Chief Security Officer at the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC). With this, journalists were prevented from filing a request for free access to information under the Law on Free Access to...
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SCOOP research: State land divided to officials
Argument about a state land in Vevcani. Around 267 hectares under the Struga village of Vevcani have two tenants. The land is state owned and Ministry of Agriculture offers it to two owners. First under public call, issued in situations where state land is already planted and the farmer has not taken out a lease, and then it is given to public announcement. The company “Eco Project” applied, run...
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The mystery of one building: in the center of Skopje, but “invisible” to the institutions
Centar Municipality has no records of the Telecom building, a striking eight-store building in the center of Skopje. Built next to the Stone Bridge and located on Macedonia square, this building is shrouded in mystery. Apart from the parties, no one knows how much the land was purchased for, how much tax has been paid for this building and what utility fees have been paid for it. Minister of...
