“The Court of Appeals passed a verdict that revoked the detention measure for the person Sasho Mijalkov, not Komercijalna Banka. “If the Prosecution, which is only one of the parties in that procedure, has a problem with the ruling of the Court of Appeals, then it can take action before the competent judicial authorities, in accordance with its legal powers, and not confuse the public with incorrect information about guarantees and mortgages.” , it is said in the reaction to Komercijalna Banka, according to the allegations of the public prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski in an interview with MIA.
In the interview, Joveski also refers to the case of the former director of UBK, who before the New Year holidays was released from custody.
“Komercijalna Banka is not a party in that procedure. Second, at the request of Best Way as a mortgage debtor for the guarantee for Sasho Mijalkov, and at the request of the prosecution, on two occasions, in May and October 2021, Komercijalna Banka only agreed that the state should have the first priority over the offered property (instead priority of Komercijalna Banka) and Komercijalna Banka to become a second-tier creditor. “At the expense of approving the state to have the first priority, Komercijalna Banka requested and received new additional collateral in the securities (shares) and construction land from the mortgage debtor,” reads the bank’s reaction.
Joveski, in an interview with MIA, among other things, said that the position of the Prosecution was not to accept the offered guarantee for the former director of UBK. This attitude, he says, stems from several reasons.
He emphasizes that the abolition of the detention measure is a decision of the court and therefore he can not comment on it at this time. He clarified that the guarantee is basically taken in money, values or other valuables that can be easily cashed in and that the amount of the guarantee depends on the family and property situation and the personality of the defendant.
No less important, according to the state public prosecutor, is the fact that a part of the property was previously established with a mortgage from Komercijalna Banka Skopje.
“In the procedure Komercijalna Banka – Skopje gave consent that it wants to be a second-tier creditor, while the state to be a first-tier creditor, then it withdrew that consent and gave such consent again. Considering that there is a special procedure and internal instructions and procedures for approving loans, and the National Bank takes care of the functioning of the banking system in the country, I believe that the National Bank should investigate whether with this agreement someone went beyond their official authority. “or the interests of the other clients of the bank are in question”, says Joveski.
Furthermore, Komercijalna Banka rejects Jovevski’s allegations that the National Bank should investigate whether the bank has exceeded its official authority.
“Also, the interests of the other clients of the Bank are not questioned because at the expense of what the state approved to have the first priority, Komercijalna Banka asked the mortgage debtor, ie the guarantor company” Best Way “, and received new additional collateral in securities (shares) and construction land, the bank said in a statement. “They add that they are convinced that the control, which the State Public Prosecutor personally requested from the National Bank, will only confirm these findings from the operation of Komercijalna Banka,” the statement said.
The transfer of responsibility for the decision to lift the detention of the convicted and accused former director of the secret police Saso Mijalkov follows after the Appellate Court for the second time agreed to accept the guarantee of 11.000.000 euros that he will not escape and will appear in court.
