Three Skopje residents end up in handcuffs after being caught seeking a loan with fake documents

The Ministry of the Interior announced that three citizens from Skopje were arrested in flagrante delicto, suspected of attempting to obtain a bank loan by presenting forged documents.

The operation took place on July 29 by officers of the Skopje Police Department, specifically the Unit for Economic Crime and Computer Crime. The detainees are I.T. (45 years old), S.T. (21 years old) and P.P. (29 years old), who are accused of committing two criminal offenses: “document forgery” and “misuse of personal data”.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the main suspect, I.T., together with the other two, appeared at a bank in the capital to apply for a sum of 900,000 denars. To finalize this illegal operation, he had in hand a forged identity card with the data of another person, along with a credit file that was also fake.

Their arrest was carried out at the moment when bank employees were verifying the suspicious documentation.

Following detention and in cooperation with the public prosecutor on duty, the three individuals were brought before the pre-trial judge to be informed of the security measures.