Pandov doubts that the burning of his house is revenge by prison gangs

Director of the Sanctions Office, Alexander Pandov, suspects that prisoners or gangs in prisons under his management are responsible for the burning of his house in the village of Zelenikovo in Skopje.

According to Pandov, this is due to the cowardice and the fear of certain prisoners of the pressure they have by changing power and the privileges they have now lost.

« Every one inmate who respects the word of the law, who respects the house order, knows that there is a friend and vice versa one who thinks he is sheriff and that his prison is his and can do whatever he wants – is my enemy, » Pandov said in Sitel Television tonight.

He says that since he is director of the administration he has probably gained some enemies who want to intimidate him with this message.

– I have no doubt that it is because of my work. I have had before, I have no evidence, but there have been such conversations specifically about ignition and other more serious crimes – said Pandov.

Asked if he had some threats during this period, Pandov said they were not direct, but that he had information from prisoners and prisons employees that certain people were talking about how to hurt him.

– This is not the attack of Alexander Pandov, this is the attack of the Director of the Sanctions Office. This fight against corruption and crime has the bandits in prisons and out of prisons – Pandov added.

On the additional question of whether specifically in somebody and whether it is certain groups or individuals, Pandov said that there are certain persons related to that type of crime.

– I will not afford to share my assumptions publicly, but I have a reasonable suspicion and they need to be clear to me that they have been obliged for me and if I prove to be one of them for the rest of their lives they will pay that debt. Neither I was scared nor the peda I think to withdraw from this. But that it will be fiercely responded to these bandits and criminals who have done this and who think they can behave this way and I am even more determined and more willing what I do to do so far – replied Pandov.

He also said that certain prisoners behaved as if they were trampled at prisons, beat prison police and dealt with usury.

Pandov says some inmates offered 20,000 euros to prison guards to reach the phone, and that tempted someone was falling, and no one.

-The most dangerous such inmates, they first tried with bribery, were coming various emissaries offering money. Me personally. They offered me sums with four zeros. A lot of money turns to prisons. The tragedy of this is not just those guilty. What makes me even more furious is that a corrupt prison police officer has given a prisoner a phone so that he can call and order what he did – he said.

Pandov said he was aware of the risk he had accepted and had thought he could one day get into the car and fly into the air.

– I have thought about it. However it is for people, at the end of the day. The state protects me as much as it can. Such a risk exists. However, I was aware of when I took this post to do this and with pure consciousness I do it. Is there such a possibility? Yes. Not only is there a possibility. There are more serious threats, but that’s it. Threats to murder – he said.

Director of the Sanctions Office added that days are at stake when the links, which will be put on the feet of convicts and who will replace the prison cell with a house prison and be under 24 hours of electronic supervision, will be put into operation.

Pandov is optimistic that by the end of the year everything will end to begin construction of the second phase of the Idrizovo prison. He also emphasized that a few days ago the working group ended the new Probation Law.

The director also stressed that the intervention unit was searching for prisons and found that over 50 percent of prisoners in the prison had phones.