Kovacevski to Petrushevski: Tell the lies that I am hiding assets outside the pulpit, then see you in court

Prime Minister Kovacevski answers parliamentary questions in the assembly/Photo: MIA

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski called on the MP from VMRO-DPMNE Brane Petrushevski to say the accusation that he is hiding assets outside the parliamentary rostrum so that the case can be cleared in court. Kovacevski said at the parliamentary questions session that VMRO-DPMNE is fabricating the affair of hiding property to hide the affair with the tender in Skopje "Vodovod".

-123 officials are hiding property worth 30 million and for months and years they have not submitted survey sheets to the Anti-Corruption Commission. Anti-corruption did not initiate a procedure for months. Does this send a message that crime is allowed and SDSM and DUI are untouchable. One, two or three officials are a coincidence, but more than 100 officials cannot be a coincidence, but a suspicion that it is a systematic concealment of assets. If it is not a question of systemic concealment of assets, Kovacevski should request a cut from the DKSK for the assets and dismiss them from their positions. It is not possible that lawyers, officials, lawyers did not know that they had a legal obligation to submit a questionnaire. Why are you protecting the officials who are hiding property or maybe you are hiding property yourself - Petrushevski asked the Prime Minister.

Kovacevski answered that first you see who asks a question, then you see the question.

- A question is asked by a deputy from VMRO-DPMNE, whose seat is synonymous with illegally acquired property. The mansion, which is worth 7 million euros, was illegally and criminally acquired with money from the citizens. Those who were then in power stole from the citizens, made property, luxuriated while the citizens sank into poverty and debt. Millions of sums were misused, but so were the procedures, the Detailed Urban Plan was changed three times so that the party could get 12.000 square meters and that scheme was proven in court. When talking about properties, you should first look at your own backyard. Every official who has been appointed is obliged to submit a property list for everything he owns to the DKSK, which then makes it public. Those who did not do that should be sanctioned and for that no one has ever received protection from me or anyone else. I have acquired everything I own in a 22-year career in the private sector. All of this has been reported to the DKSK, every change has been submitted. Since you fabricated an affair that has no basis and you fabricated it because you, your leader and fellow party members found yourself in a huge affair for tenders in Skopje "Vodovod", now you decided to fabricate an affair. I asked the lawyers to act according to all the provisions and a request has been submitted to the MP to apologize, otherwise he will have to prove it in court. About what kind of property I own, you can connect to DKSK from a mobile phone and check - answered Kovacevski.

Dissatisfied with the answer, Petrushevski asked the Prime Minister why he was not more clear and did not say that he gave the share in "Pixel GROUP" without compensation to his godfather.

- The essence of the whole affair is that you give your godfather a share in a company so that he can keep it for you and return to the company when your position ends. You have a conflict of interest because the godfather is a close person according to the law. Investigate what a hidden share means - Petrushevski said.

The Prime Minister replied that all those data can be found in the media reports.

- When I became deputy minister of finance, there was an announcement that I had withdrawn the liquid assets and had given the share to the one who remains the owner. What you are talking about, yours have done. Get out of the pulpit and prove yourself in court. I have not worked in one company, I have been both director and executive director and I have paid taxes for people like you who are on a state salary. You will be ashamed of what you are saying - Kovacevski said.

Petrushevski accused the prime minister of lying and that he should be ashamed because he handed over the share of the company to his godfather without compensation.

The president of the Anti-corruption Commission, Biljana Ivanovska, said that the verification of the data in the questionnaires of more than 5.000 elected and appointed persons is done "manually", and the SCCC should receive software for automatic verification by the end of the year.

- Last year, in the action of the SCCC, we discovered 710 elected and appointed persons who did not submit survey forms, and misdemeanor proceedings were initiated against all of them. Otherwise, there is no automatic check, but according to an annual plan, based on our risk check. This year, the data of 54 people are checked. But I call on everyone who has information about disobeying the law to submit it to us - said Ivanovska.

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