Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski became a VIP fugitive, former intelligence officials Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boskoski who are accused of being behind the massive wiretapping in Macedonia are free citizens in Greece, and Alil Demiri and Afrim Ismailovic, accused and already convicted for the five-time murder near Smilkovo Lake, are also walking freely in […]
If the photos were not posted on his official Facebook page, few would have known that Albanian President Ilir Meta was on a two-day visit to Bitola and Prespa. Apart from a courtesy meeting with the Minister of Culture, Asaf Ademi, the senior guest from Tirana spent the rest of his stay in direct contact […]
The formal extradition request for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is going to be sent to Hungary today or tomorrow at the latest, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told the press on Tuesday. In addition to documents on the Tank case, in which Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison, the Hungarian authorities will be […]
The escape of the former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski has aggravated the political situation between majority and opposition. SDSM led by PM Zoran Zaev has pointed its finger toward the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. According to this party, Mickoski has aided Gruevski to leave the country. “In a televised interview, Mickoski has […]
GROM’s leader Stevco Jakimovski estimates that with Gruevski’s escape we are all defeated: both the government and the opposition, the whole justice and himself.”But the biggest culprits are those who created the assumptions about the escape. Human rights violations, procedural law violations, trial without a lawyer, trial in enormously short deadlines, trial for a ridiculous […]
The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office joined in the investigation following the information in the public and in the public interest after receiving certain details. They suspect that certain officials, by abusing their position and authorization, enabled the convicted person to leave the country. Within the pre-trial procedure, a series of measures for gathering evidence have […]
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s escape has put his former closest associates, Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski, in the Sutka prison facility. Unlike the richest Macedonian Orce Kamcev, who received decent accommodation in Sutka in one of the so-called “Hague rooms”, as we learn, Janakieski and Bozinovski are placed in ordinary cells. From what the […]
Slobodanka Jovanovska Editor in Chief of Nezavisen Vesnik There is no one to resign in Macedonia for the major scandal that happened this week, Nikola Gruevski’s escape. Moreover, the way Prime Minister Zoran Zaev started with the excuses, the only one he would ask to resign would be Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Yesterday, Zaev […]
Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the Interior Ministry had acted in line with a court order and within its legal jurisdiction noting that the procedure for his extradition had been opened after the Hungarian interior ministry had sent a notification confirming Gruevski’s whereabouts in Budapest. “Without a court order, the Interior Ministry cannot approach […]
While the Alpha police unit along with the journalists knocked on his door and looked for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski so he could be taken to the Sutka penitentiary, and searched the trunks of cars that entered the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, Gruevski announced that he had left for Budapest, to his close friend Viktor […]
Mayor of the City of Skopje Petre Silegov canceled his visit to Budapest to be held on November 22. At the meeting that was scheduled earlier, he was supposed to discuss and exchange experiences on urbanism with the city officials. The cancellation of the meeting is due to recent events related to former Prime Minister […]
Mile Janakieski, former minister of transport and communications, and Kiril Bozinovski, former government secretary-general, have been detained and transferred to the Sutka prison, the Ministry of Interior said. Both were detained early on Wednesday upon an order issued by the Criminal Court at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Janakieski and Bozinovski are indicted […]
The Special Prosecutor’s Office has no guilt in the escape of Nikola Gruevski. We have continually urged and filed requests for detention and the court was the institution that took the decisions, said prosecutor Lile Stefanova on Wednesday. Stefanova told reporters that the responsibility for Gruevski’s escape was institutional. “SPO has continually appealed and filed […]
The Skopje Criminal Court issued an order yesterday to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as it is stated, […]
Extraordinary coordination with the vice-presidents of parliament and the coordinators of the parliamentary groups for reviewing the status of Nikola Gruevski as an MP, announced Speaker Talat Xhaferi after the former prime minister announced that he had fled to Hungary. – Members of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group have so far reported Gruevski as absent from the sessions, […]
Nikola Gruevski through his official Facebook profile wrote that he is in Hungary and that he asked for political asylum from the authorities there. “In the last few days I have received countless threats after my life. I am in Budapest now, and I sought political asylum from the Hungarian authorities. I will always remain […]
The police searched yesterday the home of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski and several other locations will also be targeted. Other measures will also be taken, such as car checks, along with enhanced police presence at the exit of Skopje and border crossings, said Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski on Tuesday. Minister Spasovski told reporters […]
Former head of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence and one of the excluded members of VMRO-DPMNE Saso Mijalkov said he didn’t know the whereabouts of his first cousin and former PM Nikola Gruevski, who has been wanted by the police since last night. “I don’t know,” Mijalkov responded briefly to a reporter who asked […]
The Skopje based Criminal Court issued an order this afternoon to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself over to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as […]
It’s been two days now that authorities in The Republic of Macedonia are looking for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, for whom the court has handed a two year prison sentence. Gruevski must go to the penitentiary facility where he’s supposed to serve his sentence. The former PM was convicted by the court following the trial […]
