After Christmas, it will be known whether Dimovski will leave for ambassadorship in Paris

Viktor Dimovski, Director of ANB / Photo: Free Press Archive

Whether ex-director of ANB Viktor Dimovski will leave for ambassador in Paris is expected to be clearer next week when the consultations between the head of state Stevo Pendarovski, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski and Minister of Foreign Relations Bujar Osmani are scheduled. The head of diplomacy confirmed that immediately after Christmas, on January 9, there will be a meeting with Pendarovski and Kovacevski about Dimovski and the list of proposals for filling 14 ambassador positions.

Dimovski's departure as ambassador to Paris became controversial after the Macedonian citizenship scandal for Russian oligarch Oleksandr Onishchenko, who is on the US blacklist.

Onishchenko received Macedonian citizenship during Dimovski's directorship of ANB, which was one of the four institutions that gave a positive opinion for Onishchenko to receive a Macedonian passport.

After the scandal, the Government took away Onishchenko's citizenship, and after the two reports prepared by the National Security Agency, one by Dimovski and one by the new director of the Agency Zarko Milosevski, the public did not receive an answer as to who is responsible for the oligarch's failure to obtain Macedonian citizenship, because the parliamentary A commission to oversee the work of the security services was behind closed doors, due to classified information.

The ANB's report on Onishchenko should also be heard in a closed session of the Government.

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