In the tax fraud case, 10 people have been detained. Also, Sitel said in its Friday report that another two suspects had been in detention previously in the frames of the IPARD case. The other 10 suspects have been issued measures of precaution, as well as a ban on work in the frames of the PRO.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the group, consisting of 20 people, including PRO employees and owners of companies, was headed by a Serbian citizen. The group is suspected of pumping out around 4.8 million euros from the budget. During Thursday’s searches, money, fake stamps from companies, and bogus documentation was found.
“The prime suspect, a Serbian citizen and owner and manager of two legal entities, together with two officers of the PRO’s Skopje regional Directorate, in 2023, formed a group aiming to commit crimes of tax evasion, tax fraud, money laundering, and abuse of official position”, the Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption said on Friday.