Following received information on potential inhumane treatment of elderly persons using services of extra-family protection, the Skopje Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry’s Economic and Computer Crime Unit, is taking measures to solve the case, authorities said on Tuesday.
“After enough information confirming the grounds of suspicions had been gathered, yesterday, four locations related to two private institutions for social protection of elderly persons were searched. Today, searches are being performed at another two related locations. So far, two people have been deprived of liberty”, it was explained in the press-release.
Inspectors from other institutions, including the Ministry of Social Policy, Demography, and Youth, as well as representatives of public health centres and Forensic Medicine Institute doctors, are acting at the scene, together with the Interior Ministry and prosecutors.
“Institutions are continuing activities to determine all relevant facts from a legal standpoint and potential accountability in the case”, the Office added.