Two new charges have been filed against Struga Mayor Ramiz Merko, who was blacklisted last year by the U.S. In the first case, four persons, Merko, a teacher, a head-teacher, and an assistant head-teacher, are charged with falsification of an employment document and appointing a head-teacher, who held the position from April 2022 to September 2023.
“The principal suspect, a French language teacher at a primary school in Velesta, used three fake public documents as original to take an expert exam within the State Exam Centre. The other three people, the Mayor, the head-teacher, and the assistant head-teacher accepted the fake documents for her employment as a teacher, but also for her appointment as an acting head-teacher,” the Public Prosecutor’s Office said.
In the second case, Merko is charged with unscrupulous operation with the service because he appointed a person as an acting head-teacher of a primary school in Podgorci village even though that person didn’t meet the criteria.