A public prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption (PPO OCC), acting on a criminal complaint filed by the Department for Suppression of Organized and Serious Crime, issued an order to conduct an investigative procedure against six individuals and two legal entities.
The investigation covers the owner and manager of a criminally liable legal entity from the village of Kuchevishte, who was also a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the criminally liable insurance brokerage company, for whom there is a reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offenses of embezzlement in office and money laundering and other proceeds from a criminal offense. Two executive members of the Board of Directors of the insurance brokerage company and a certified accountant and manager of a company for accounting services and consulting are suspected of assisting in the commission of the same criminal offenses. The head of the technical inspection station and the assistant director of finance at PE State Roads are suspected of aiding in the commission of embezzlement in office. The order also covers two legal entities suspected of money laundering and other proceeds from a criminal offense. According to the evidence provided to date, in the period from January 1, 2021 to January 20, 2026, the first suspect, with the intention of obtaining unlawful property benefit for himself, appropriated MKD 138,877,419, while the other suspects intentionally assisted him in the commission and concealment of the crime.
