Skopje, 16 August 2022 (MIA) – Financial Police Director Arafat Muaremi says Tuesday that he is stepping down from his post, in order to avoid any doubt about any influence on the case being carried out in the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption. “Taking into account the decision of the Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski to file a proposal on disciplinary procedure aimed at establishing the responsibility of three public prosecutors and to suspend the head of the Public Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption, Vilma Ruskovska due to illegal conduct and the abuse of official position and authority, of my own free will, I resign from the post of acting director of the Financial Police Office,” Muaremi said. “I am making a decision in order that the public does not have the slightest doubt about the integrity, impartiality and independence of the procedure which continues to be conducted in the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption," Financial Police Office said in a press release. It also said that today's decision of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia gives a clear message that the laws must be obeyed by everyone and that the misuse of position for personal gains is not permissible. Earlier, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said the Chief Public Prosecutor, Ljubomir Joveski, has decided “to remove a public prosecutor from their position while a criminal procedure initiated after a criminal report was filed against them is under way” in accordance with the Law on Public Prosecution. The Chief Public Prosecutor has filed a proposal on opening a disciplinary procedure aimed at establishing the responsibility of three public prosecutors, suspected of “making a major professional blunder with intention and without justification,” said the press release.