Fraud Charges in Armenia no Obstacle to State Contracts in North Macedonia
Summary
Date Reported: 6 Mar 2023
Location: North Macedonia
Companies
Bechtel - Client , ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. - Client , Western Balkans Investment Framework - Sponsor , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - SponsorProjects
Corridor 8 & 10D (sections Tetovo - Gostivar, Struga - Kafasan, Prilep - Bitola) - SiteAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Public: ( Number unknown - North Macedonia , Road-building , Gender not reported )Issues
ComplicityResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 1 Jul 2021
Location: North Macedonia
Companies
Bechtel - Client , ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. - Client , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Sponsor , Western Balkans Investment Framework - SponsorProjects
Corridor 8 & 10D (sections Tetovo - Gostivar, Struga - Kafasan, Prilep - Bitola) - SiteAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Public: ( Number unknown - North Macedonia , Road-building , Gender not reported )Issues
Access to Information , Corruption , ComplicityResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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Source type: NGO
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...