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6 Mar 2023

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Frosina Dimeska, Vasko Magleshov, Balkan Insight

Fraud Charges in Armenia no Obstacle to State Contracts in North Macedonia

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06 March 2023

Branislav Dimitrijevic faces charges in Armenia of fraud and illegally crossing the border with the help of a trio of Macedonian diplomats. But his legal issues have not stopped him from winning lucrative public contracts in his native North Macedonia...

On December 6, 2018, prosecutors in Armenia charged a Macedonian national called Branislav Dimitrijevic with “large-scale fraud” during construction of a north-south highway, as team leader for the French-Spanish consortium Safege-Eptisa... That, however, proved no barrier to Dimitrijevic resurfacing in February this year as one of the winners of a 22 million euro Macedonian government tender to supervise more road building, this time corridors 8 and 10D being built by the US-Turkish consortium Bechtel-ENKA...

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