The Skopje-based Criminal Court has extended the detention of former Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) head Vladimir Atanasovski by another 30 days. Vladimir Atanasovski is suspected of ‘association for enemy activity’ related to the 27 April 2017 events in Parliament. Ex-director of UBK Atanasovski was detained last December after the testimony of two defendants […]
Skopje Criminal Court has ordered former ariculture minister Mihail Cvetkov and deputy agriculture minister Kristijan Delev detained for 30 days. Former agriculture minister Aco Spasenovski was placed under house arrest on medical grounds. Former agriculture minister and current MP Ljupcho Dimovski has claimed parliamentary immunity, so his case will be considered at a later date, […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said he is concerned after the unprecedented public rebuke from US Ambassador Jess Baily, who sent letters to the main courts in the country informing them that judges must stop saying that they are ordering detentions and hefty prison sentences for former VMRO-DPMNE officials based on orders from his Embassy. Shortly […]
US Ambassador Jess Baily sent a letter yesterday to the Skopje Criminal Court demanding judges stop using his name when ordering detention against former VMRO-DPMNE officials or when sentencing them to prison. Ambassador Baily sent the letter to Criminal Court head Ivan Dzolev, saying that he is “disappointed from the constant reports that judges say […]
Forty-two defendants in several cases related to the April 27 incidents have filed amnesty requests so far to the Criminal Court in Skopje. One defendant said he wouldn’t ask for amnesty. The five-day deadline for their submission expires on Tuesday. The applicants can file the requests in person and by post. The court and the […]
Twelve defendants in the April 27 case have filed amnesty requests, said the Skopje-based Criminal Court. The five-day deadline for the amnesty requests expires on Tuesday. The applicants can file the requests in person and by post. The court and the public prosecutor’s office then have another five days to decide who is eligible for […]
At Tuesday’s hearing in Skopje’s Criminal Court, four witnesses, among whom former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, will testify about the events of April 27, 2017. Judge Dobrila Kacarska said more witnesses would be heard Thursday as well, whereas the Prosecutor is expected to submit additional evidence on Friday. Closing statements are to begin next week, […]
The Sofia Medical Center “Majcin Dom” banned Dr Nikolce Damcevski from performing medical activity, considering that there is an effective decision against him for a two-year prison sentence in Macedonia. Before our Ministry of Health addressed the Bulgarian authorities, Damcevski duly performed his work in the capital of Bulgaria, and was even considered one of […]
Although everyone expected to see the former chief of the secret police, Saso Mijalkov, in handcuffs, as all defendants from the Sutka prison were taken to court, the prison van took him directly into the court’s garage, and the public was allowed to enter the courtroom when the handcuffs were already removed from Mijalkov. The […]
Orce Kamcev, the businessman who was named by the renowned economic magazine Forbes as the richest Macedonian, bought a hospital, an agricultural plant, a dairy factory during VMRO-DPMNE’s rule, and now he probably ponders how to buy his own freedom in the investigative prison in Sutka. Kamcev’s attorney Antonio Apostolski appealed on Saturday to the […]
The Criminal Council of the Organized Crime and Corruption Department within Basic Court Skopje 1 has rejected Friday the appeals of Nikola Gruevski and his defense lawyers, thus confirming the judge’s verdict, under which the former PM and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE party should report to the prison in Skopje to serve a two-year sentence. […]
If there is amnesty, the first remark from the European institutions will be towards the judiciary and the disrespect of the most important principle of the rule of law, says the former judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Margarita Caca Nikolovska. However, judge Nikolovska believes that Prime Minister Zoran Zaev did […]
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 […]
Trial in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed “Titanic” has been adjourned Wednesday due to the illness of the defendant Martin Protugjer for September 24. Protugjer’s lawyer Donco Nakov submitted to the court the medical documentation and explained that defendant was urgently taken late Tuesday to emergency care unit. The prosecutor Lile Stefanovska said that […]
A Crime technician opened the Opel Omega car and according to the vehicle identification number (VIN) it was confirmed that the vehicle was the same as the one that was inspected in the first procedure for the Monster case. The lawyers who suspected it was the same vehicle were reassured that the VIN number coincides. […]
A Crime technician opened the Opel Omega car and according to the vehicle identification number (VIN) it was confirmed that the vehicle was the same as the one that was inspected in the first procedure for the Monster case. The lawyers who suspected it was the same vehicle were reassured that the VIN number coincides. […]
Judges and prosecutors will inspect the Opel Omega car this morning, in the presence of the media, which is one of the key evidence in the “Monster” case. The vehicle is located near the village of Miladinovci in a depot, which is under the responsibility of the Agency for Management of Confiscated Property. According to […]
The OSCE Mission to Skopje presented Wednesday its first interim report on the activities and cases of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), which provides a detailed analysis of, and recommendations for the work of the Office, highlighting the challenges encountered and the successes achieved. The report is the result of the Mission’s trial monitoring observations […]
The trial for the Monster case of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office for the five-time murder of Smilkovsko Lake from 12 April 2012 continues on August 31 with the hearing the protected witness by the court. At today’s hearing, the protected witness was answering questions from the defense attorneys after the hearing of the SPO […]
Reputable people who recited and sang in front of the Parliament, MPs who waved their hands without making any signs to open the door of the Parliament and let the crowd in, a policeman who saved the life of MP Zijadin Sela and a minister who safely evacuated the people who were inside the Parliament, […]
