VMRO-DPMNE MP and EC member Antonio Miloshoski accused that the “Mazut” case experienced a “silent amnesty” after the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption (PPO OCC) decided to halt the investigation.
Miloshoski told a press conference that the chief prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption, Islam Abazi, has a “personal and political concession” to DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and SDSM leader Venko Filipche, who, according to the ruling party MP, were “mentors of his career”.
Miloshoski indicated that the investigation concerned the procurement of crude oil – mazut worth EUR 167 million, and mentioned Vasko Kovachevski, Erdzhan Sulkoski, Ratko Kapushevski and Asmir Jahoski as people close to SDSM and DUI.
According to Miloshoski, despite the fact that investigators from the Ministry of Interior provided relevant evidence for, as he called, a “corrupt and expensive procurement”, prosecutors Islam Abazi and Kolarevikj decided to stop the investigation. VMRO-DPMNE requested that the president of Council of Public Prosecutors supervise the work of prosecutors at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Criminal Investigation Department, assessing the decision to discontinue the investigation as controversial.
“The public has the right to know every detail about this 167 million euro procurement,” Miloshoski said, adding that the rule of law can only be strengthened if high-level corruption cases are resolved by the courts.
