Millions stolen in Skopje: Treasury worker admitted the guilt, but he is not revealing where the money is

Police still didn't "break" the bank official who robbed three million euros from NLB Tutun bank in Skopje

Treasury worker Boban S. (40) who is suspect for stealing millions from NLB Tutun bank in Skopje, and he asked to make an agreement with the prosecution. He promised that the will plead guilty if he gets more lenient sentence. But he will not say where he hid the stolen money, adds Dnevnik from Skopje.

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According to the sources of investigation, it is presumed that this case was tied to recent money laundry in the same bank. It is about more hundreds of euros, and suspects were directors, former minister, lawyers and other people.

They haven't confirmed nothing from the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, nor denied the Dnevnik text that 3 million euros Boban S. took out of the bank with his associates were found. They briefly stated that the investigation is ongoing.

Boban S., who is in custody, managed to steal 2.4 million Swiss francs and 645,000 euros early last month from the Treasury Tutun Bank.

His brother Goran S. (44), his friend Boris M. (38) and bank tellers EP (24) are suspected for the theft of the century.

Its unknown if they asked like Boban S. who was the brains of the robbery, asked to make an agreement with the prosecution in exchange for a lower sentence.

Scandal in NLB Tutunska Bank erupted in early April when the Ministry of Interior announced that treasury worker committed theft of millions from the main vault of the bank.

Just as the affair went quiet a bit, NLB Tutun bank in the middle of this month once again found itself in the center of public attention.

The Prosecutor's Office opened a case involving money laundering in which current and former bank director were involved, a former minister, lawyers, notary and one citizen of Slovenia, who, as pointed out, operated as an organized network of money laundering for 11 years .

Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for prosecution of organized crime and corruption has not announced their names, but only prosecutes them for crimes committed for "abuse of official position and authority, and money laundering."

- There are suspicions that means were undertaken to form companies, raising loans and transferring of funds to Slovenia into Austrian company in the period from 2006. to 2017., and then the part of the funds was used to invest into founding new companies and buying real estates in the city of Bitola in Macedonia - announced from the Prosecution office.

Its still unknown how much money has been laundered, but it is speculated that it was several hundred thousand euros.

Macedonian media have speculated that in both cases the bank was damaged by 17 million euros, but the NLB Tutun bank denied it.

(Telegraf.co.uk / D.J.)