Samsonenko sergej biography of barack

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author: Goran Lefkov

His story adoration coming to Macedonia is entire of coincidence. The Russian businessperson Sergei Samsonenko has been elegant to the macedonian public, principally the journalists, since the second 2 when he registered the primary firm in Skopje.

 “So we went out, I saw, it was about 5^th October, days departure or minus, it should own been warm, but it was cold, it was very begrimed in Russia, it was motherly, we came here, there challenging been a storm, it was raining, so we went generate, a disaster.

I asked themselves what that was. It was stormy so we landed about. We came to the breakfast, we stayed there on Vodno and in the morning Wild saw the greenery, the municipality was not modern, everything was old, so now it attempt great”.

This interview with Sergei Samsonenko from February is one interrupt his rare public appearances.

Type was brought here by skilful seemingly innocent story about ethics joys of Skopje. Samsonenko be accessibles from Rostov-on-Don. In his hometown he is known for justness sports betting shop Bet Spring back, which is among the bossy famous brands in Russia.

SAMSONENKO Appears FROM RUSSIA, HIS FIRMS Overexert OFFSHORE DESTINATIONS

Samsonenko came to Macedonia in autumn Just a scarce months after Nikola Gruevski’s put together had won.

He arrived bring to fruition Macedonia at the airport Alexanders the Great, but his companies arrived via offshore destinations.

While reward business empire was continually enlargeable in Macedonia, his companies pigs Russia were subject to evidence of Russian courts. SCOOP Macedonia came to a series support documents showing that the leave behind services are frequent guests spick and span the company Fortuna, owned be oblivious to Samsonenko’s mother.

In one of probity verdicts of the Court marvel at Arbitration in the Republic not later than Tatarstan, the decision of depiction Federal Tax Service for approving of administrative penalty against depiction company &#;Fortuna&#; was annulled.

According to the documents, inspectors start irregularities in the work elect this betting shop which difficult to understand performed payment of winning tickets without the use of affluence registers.

“Federal Tax Service found irregularities all over Russia. Not one and only in Rostov-on-Don but also acquire Siberia and other regions”,  Andrey Zakharov, Russian investigative journalist, so-called for SCOOP Macedonia.

The indulgent shops BetCity Balkan are circlet first business in Macedonia. Aleksandar Pandov, former MP of Gruevski&#;s party, appeared as an hand in Samsonenko’s companies until

Current project manager of Samsonenko’s companies in Macedonia is Ratko Kapushevski, former director of the balls center Boris Trajkovski.

Although SCOOP-Macedonia purport several requests for an talk, Sergei Samsonenko and his representatives did not want to development with a statement in that documentary.

Samsonenko’s business activities have antiquated attracting media attention since illustriousness very beginning.

“The public-private partnership 'tween Samsonenko and municipality Aerodrom progression also an interesting combination, follow is probably the only public-private partnership in which the her indoors has no obligation towards ethics municipality.

In a tender they gave him the sports foyer for 35 years, which bash not transparent, in a delicate without any technical and budgetary criteria for the potential bidders and ultimately it raises rendering question of legality of lose one\'s train of thought tender and the failure come close to comply with legal procedures out of the sun which it was granted”, Sashka Cvetkovska, investigative journalist at Matchless TV said to SCOOP.

She adds that on the last okay of the deadline for piling offers for public private corporation, a contract was signed do better than the company itself, which esteem Bet City Limited, to break down granted year concession of rendering sports hall MZT.

Vlado Apostolov, investigatory journalist at BIRN has additionally investigated the business activities corporeal Samsonenko.

“The trigger for the undivided faultless research was that on description site of the Central Rolls museum we saw by chance turn the company building the actions center in Jane Sandanski difficult exited the ownership of justness sports center, so Samsonenko alone appeared in its place.

Just as we checked the company&#;s past owner it turned out lambast be a Cypriot company move so it clicked. Whenever prickly have a combination of elegant Russian and Cyprus, something sappy is happening, not to produce some other word. When astonishment checked the Cypriot company astonishment realized that the owner was a company from Belize befall at the same address on account of all these other companies livestock Macedonia which are associated continue living the business elite close optimism VMRO-DPMNE.

That was the give rise to, that was the point, nobleness doubt whose money it was, how he obtained the money”, he emphasized.

THE DOUBT FOR Description LEGALITY OF THE INVESTMENTS

At the moment, Samsonenko has 4 active companies with his designation as the owner in Russia.

In he closed the company Precipitous Center Orion.

A year finance the company Zdravje Radovo Strumica became the owner of dignity company Zdrave-Agro in Rostov. In defiance of Zdravje from Radovo which owns 50%, Sergei Samsonenko personally owns 15% of this company.

Sergei Samsonenko’s mother Raisa Samsonenko, born check is one of the owners of the company Fortuna use up Rostov-on-Don.

Experts say that the bare appearance of companies based jammy the offshore countries doubts say publicly legality of the money.

They warn that the country has turned into a mecca extend dirty money.

Vane Cvetanov, former governor of the Directorate for Pennilessness Laundering Prevention says:

“The Ministry hint at Interior has always been class main obstacle to the road of money laundering prevention take away the Republic of Macedonia. Religion of Interior hampered those processes and information obtained from picture Directorate for Money Laundering Obstruction and abused it for professor own purposes.

We can oppose, we cannot claim whether they had taken commissions from trustworthy subjects, whether they abused them for their own political really or they had totally devastation level of professionalism that they were unable to cope hash up this type of reports”.

Cvetanov explains that at that time Cleric of Interior was Gordana Jankuloska, director of UBK (Administration encouragement Security and Counterintelligence) was Sasho Mijalkov, director of the Defeat Security Bureau was Ljupco Todorovski.

It is symptomatic for the businesses of Sergei Samsonenko in Macedonia that his main activities radio show betting and sports clubs.

Inaccuracy owns the betting shops Punt City Balkan, the football billy Vardar and the female plus male handball team with excellence same brand.

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

Such proprietorship is contrary to Article 25 of the ETI code perceive FIFA which states:

“Persons bound dampen this Code shall be proscribed from taking part in, either directly or indirectly, or or then any other way being associated with, betting, speculation, lotteries and similar events correspond to transactions connected with football matches.

They are forbidden from receipt stakes, either actively or freely, in companies, concerns, organizations, etc. that promote, broker, arrange chart conduct such events or transactions”. /Graphics/

Football workers in the community also see a conflict be frightened of interest in such behaviors rule Samsonenko.

Ljubomir Gjurcevski, former member gaze at the Management Board of Soccer field Federation of Macedonia points concluded for this:

“The impact of athleticss betting shops on the clubs where they have their remove from power share is huge and deal high level of crime added corruption”.

According to him, the hazard of match-fixing results is huge.

“It is about a conflict pay for interest.

The profit is unpitying. I would never exclude noisy, but as a sports unaccompanied I will always advocate stray conflict to be overcome. Patrons. Samsonenko needs to declare theorize he would leave one best part of the business or magnanimity other, whether he would at the end only as a businessman accord with sports betting shops or good taste would invest in football standing football clubs”, Gjurcevski believes.

What crack the source of Samsonenko’s whitewash in Macedonia?

Investigative journalists identify the answer to this skepticism in his closeness to say publicly ruling party.

“The biggest controversy focus we as journalists were commiserating in, were the links manage companies that then he took over, that are in bottleneck shore destinations that shared character same addresses of other seaward companies that in earlier check we associated with Mr.

Mil Janakieski’s godfather, Dejan Pandelevski, deal with the businessman Orce Kamcev, nobility portal and weekly Republika pivotal other controversial officials, dignitaries take up businessmen”, Sashka Cvetkovska says.

Samsonenko mortal physically did not hide his familiarity with the ruling VMRO-DPMNE.

Appease publicly appeared in the descant video commissioned by this thing in openly supporting Nikola Gruevski.

Journalists: Angela Rajcheska and Bianka Stankovich

(The story has been supported encourage the National Endowment for self-determination project “Raising Awareness About Depravity through Investigative Reporting”)

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