Five Physical Persons, including Ex-PE Head Rustemi, and One Legal Entity Charged

Five physical persons and one legal entity have been charged with abuse of a tender for security of toll booths in the frames of the PE for State Roads.

Among those detained is the PE’s former head, Ejup Rustemi, who, according to the charges, in 2022, signed a deal worth 760,000 euros with a Kicevo-based company for security of 14 such stations of the PE.

Ejup Latifi, Assistant Director of Road Maintenance, two managers at the Department of Collection of Tolls and Control, and Dzemal Bilbilovski, owner of the security agency, have been detained as well. Prosecutors have has sought measures of precaution for all suspects except Bilbilovski, for whom a detention one has been sought.