MP Antonio Milošoski accuses public prosecutors Islam Abazi and Katerina Kolarević of deliberately leaving the State Audit Office (DZR) reports out of the investigation into the purchase of fuel oil worth 167 million euros for TEC Negotino. In other words - according to Milošoski, this isn't an investigation. It's a simulation.

Milošoski's main claims are concrete. First, the prosecutors leaned on statements from "unprofessional and incompetent" individuals, instead of the formal DZR reports. Second, in 2024 the State Audit Office established that the fuel oil had come from a different supplier than the one agreed between ESM, the thermal plant and the approved vendor. Third, ESM's technical services confirmed the presence of impurities in the fuel oil, which caused problems with the plant's equipment.

Despite all these documented problems, an amended contract pushed the total amount to 167 million euros. Milošoski is asking the Council of Public Prosecutors to investigate whether the prosecutors made an oversight or deliberately ignored the documents. "The public deserves the truth," he said.

On the other side of the argument, prosecutor Kolarević stated that in March 2026, technical representatives of ESM and TEC Negotino testified that procedures had been correct and contracts fully respected. ESM has announced an appeal, claiming the technical staff don't have the economic expertise to assess financial damage.

The Balkans know this kind of case by heart. An energy company buys fuel from an unregistered supplier, the audit office files a report, the prosecution "investigates" for several years, then the whole thing goes quiet. But 167 million euros isn't a small loss. That's almost 10,000 euros per Macedonian citizen that somebody routed into somebody else's pocket - and nobody answers. Where's the money now? And why do investigations like this in Macedonia always end as a "technical oversight" with no one to blame?