SCPC Presents Findings on Ex-Culture Minister and Councils in Judiciary

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) has found that Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska, during her term as Culture Minister, during a visit to the UK in October of last year, spent around 760 pounds in taxpayer money for private purposes.

The presentation the SCPC also said the decisions by the Judicial Council and Council of Public Prosecutors to nominate the latter’s head, Dusica Dimitrieska, and the former’s Antoaneta Dimovska and Hanif Zendeli as members of the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors’ Managing Board were illegal.

Furthermore, the body headed by Tatjana Dimitrovska urged both Councils to stop the effectiveness of those decisions due to, as it assessed, incompatibility of office.

Moreover, the SCPC initiated disciplinary proceedings and a procedure to issue a misdemeanour order against Council member Dimovska over conflict of interest and bias while holding office because, as it was pointed out, she initiated a procedure to determine liability of Supreme Court judges who were acting in a case involving the law office of which her sister, ex-SDSM MP Kaleska-Vanceva, is part.