The Appellate Court in Skopje accepted the appeal by former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and replaced detention order with house arrest. “The first-instance decision has been altered and house arrest has been ordered, accompanied by precautionary measures,” informs the court. Katica Janeva is a defendant in money extortion case, commonly referred to as the Racket […]
Former SPO head Katica Janeva stays in detention at the Shutka prison, despite the closing of the investigation into the “Racket” case in which she is the third suspect, says the Appellate Court. The Court has rejected the appeal submitted by Janeva’s lawyers on the basis of flight risk. The Appellate Court has ruled on […]
The Skopje-based Criminal Court rejected the appeal for postponement of the execution of the prison sentence of Sead Kochan as unfounded, and upheld the ruling of the judge for execution of criminal sanctions, according to which Kochan is to start serving his prison sentence immediately. Macedonian businessman Sead Kochan was sentenced in a case code-named […]
Former director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, Sasho Mijalkov, asks the court for his passport back so he could have his medical treatments abroad. According to information, Mijalkov went to the SPO with a bunch of medical documents requesting the return of his passport, which is kept in the Criminal Court as one […]
The judge for execution of criminal sanctions within the Skopje Criminal Court rejected on Monday the appeal for postponement of the execution of the prison sentence of Sead Kochan. The Macedonian businessmanаn Sead Kochan lodged a request for postponement of prison sentence to 4 years and 8 months due to health reasons. He was sentenced […]
Neither the Criminal Court nor the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office has reacted to the statement by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski in which he criticizes the judicial authorities, after the suspected businessman Orce Kamchev was issued a passport in order to participate in meetings of the Board of Directors and education abroad. Minister Spasovski, in his […]
The Amnesty law cut in half the number of defendants in the trial for the April 27 events in parliament. The number of defendants can be further reduced if the Court of Appeals decided to accept the complaints of some of the defendants who initially did not receive amnesty before the Christmas holidays. It should […]
The only official from the previous government who ended up in prison and was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison, Gjoko Popovski, won a smaller legal battle. The Court of Appeal abolished the nine-year sentence for the former assistant minister in the Interior Ministry for illegally procuring 300 vehicles for the Ministry […]
The first-instance judgment in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case Trista (Three Hundred) has been cancelled and the case will be retried, decided the Skopje-based Appellate Court on Wednesday. Former Assistant Interior Minister Gjoko Popovski was sentenced on May 22nd to 9 years in prison for abuse of office and damages to the budget in the […]
Skopje Court of Appeal has released MP Krsto Mukoski on bail regarding the April 27 events in Parliament. The Appellate Court approved Friday Mukoski’s complaint against the decision of the Criminal Court, cancelling the measure house arrest, but retained his passport and obliged him to report to the court.
Former prime minister Nikola Gruevski on Friday called the decision of the Appellate Court upholding his two-year prison sentence ‘political pressure and political repression.’ He will be imprisoned for the illicit purchase of a luxury, €600,000 Mercedes. “It is political repression and a politically-staged process that is ongoing. The only thing that changed after my press conference […]
The Appellate Court in Skopje dismissed an appeal by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, as being ‘groundless’, against a ruling over a two-year prison sentence. The Skopje court partially upheld an appeal by a defendant, namely the former associate interior minister, Gjoko Popovski. It changed a section of the sentencing decision and sentenced him to […]
One week after the public session ended, the Court of Appeal had not yet decided whether former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who was sentenced to two years in prison for the procurement of a luxury Mercedes, would end up behind bars, return the case to a retrial before the Criminal Court, or change the prison […]
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski should appear before the Appellate Court in Skopje today to begin a hearing on the May verdict in the Tank case, in which he was sentenced to two years in prison for illicit influence in the purchase of the luxury Mercedes. His defense filed an appeal on the grounds that […]
The Skopje Appellate Court has altered the detention measure into house arrest for MP Ljuben Arnaudov and organizers of “Joint Macedonia” protests Boris Damovski and Bogdan Ilievski, who are suspects in the case regarding the incidents in Parliament on 27 April 2017. Their passports will be confiscated as a precautionary measure. Former minister of interior […]
The Skopje Appellate Court at a closed session on Monday rejected seven more appeals, calling them ‘groundless’, against the detention of suspects for terrorism and constitutional enlargement in connection to the events of 27 April 2017 in Parliament. Under the ruling, seven people – Ivan Cvetanovski, Abduljafet Alimi, Ljuben Arnaudov, Jane Cento, Johan Tarculovski, Saso […]
