Friday, 24 December 2010 

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/17187/2/

The Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) in coordination with the Public Revenue Office and the Directorate for Prevention of Money Laundering has brought criminal charges against 23 people, including 18 Macedonians, one Turkish national and four citizens of Kosovo, who were owners, managers and employees in several firms located on "Pero Nakov" street as well as against 10 firms.

MoI spokesperson Ivo Kotevski told Friday's press conference that they were suspected of committing several crimes, such as criminal association, tax evasion, money laundering, abuse of power, breaching industrial property rights in the period between 2006 and 2010.

"These are the results of the so called "Spiderweb" fraud probe, which was carried out in the past 30 days," Kotevski said.

The Public Revenue Office has carried tax investigation into 12 companies. Based on its findings, the companies have made an illegal revenue in amount of 1.74 billion denars (17.48 million euros).

On late Thursday, owner of A1 TV station Velija Ramkovski, along with ten other managers of firms located on "Pero Nakov" street or related to them, were detained under the suspicion of tax evasion, abuse of official position and competence, money laundering and criminal association.

A1 director Aneta Kociski, Velija's brother Amdi Ramkovski, along with several managers of companies, where police recently uncovered unregistered money and documents, are among the detainees.

They were brought before an investigative judge on Friday.