Prosecutors choose Iskra Haxhivasileva to lead anti-corruption office
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Iskra Haxhivasileva has been elected to lead the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption. Separately, police are conducting a sprawling investigation into a private hospital and former Health Fund employees over an alleged €1.5 million budget shortfall and €4 million in illegal gains. Haxhivasileva’s reputation rests on the €350,000 she once famously found buried in a judge’s wall.
The government’s digital push has hit a practical wall. The Minister of Digital Transformation says that digital ID cards and driver’s licenses are not currently valid when dealing with the police. Until the laws are amended to catch up with the software, motorists are advised to keep their physical wallets close at hand.
Elsewhere, municipal spending has doubled ahead of next year’s elections, with Tetovo leading the surge. In Strumica, police are searching for over 7,000 kilograms of missing medicinal cannabis. Students, meanwhile, have left a meeting with the government empty-handed; their meal subsidy remains frozen at 140 denars.