Two customs officers who did not identify the bus exit of “Besa Trans” from Macedonia

“About information that has come up in the opinion in relation to the competencies of the Republic of Northern Macedonia Customs Directorate during the search for access and exit of vehicles and transports that make international transport of travelers free, as well as for action in the concrete case inform you that:

In compliance with Article 49 from the Law for Transport to Road Traffic, during the conduct of free transportation of travelers to international road traffic, depending on the type of transport, the transporter must have: license certificate, original authorisation, evidentation list for passenger transport, signed agreements between transporters and service errands and the list of the properly and correctly completed forms of specific forms, signed and verified by the transporter and verified by competent customs services.

According to these related documents, the Customs Directorate records the transport to either the entrance or exit during the first or second passage of the vehicle through the border crossing of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, depending on the transportation response.

For the recording sign vehicle SK 0284 BA transporter Besa Trans from Skopje, between 15.10,2020 and 11,11.2021, the Customs Directorate has recorded more crossings through the Deve Bair border crossings, Blace, Qafatha and Dellcheva, for various types of transport, including evidence of the number of license certificate for conducting public transport to international road transport COM transport.

The authenticity of these documents attached to the carrier would be additionally checked.

The first findings from internal control show that in 18,11,2021, the release of the SK 0284 recording vehicle is not electronically recorded BA of the transporter Besa Trans from Skopje has only become verification of the obtaining list for passenger transport.

For the irregularities proven so far, for two customs officers who have been in exchange when the vehicle is out of state, a suspension measures will be taken from the workplace, while measures for sanctioning” will follow, says the statement.

Otherwise, on December 23rd, a bus of Besa Trans Skopje was involved in an accident on the highway in Bulgaria, which resulted in 46 people dead and 7 others injured. The investigation is making Bulgaria's Prosecution, already locked in, are experts from Northern Macedonia.

The reasons and causes of the accident are still unknown. What is known, according to surviving travelers, is that the bus has first lost control, then crashed into banking and then felt an explosion, and for short time it has been burned.

Among the victims were 12 children, but young and older, who had been on a trip to Turkey with the tourist agency “Bese Trans Skopje”.

Due to the tragic accident, three days of mourning have been declared in the RMV and one day in Bulgaria and Kosovo. Televisions of comfort come from all over the world. /Portatal. mk