Mijalkov released from Sutka prison before elections


The Skopje-based Appellate Court has ordered house arrest for former director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Sasho Mijalkov and former State Election Commission (SEC) member Bedredin Ibraimi in the Special Prosecutor’s Office case dubbed “Titanic 2”. Former SEC member Aneta Stefanovska will be under precautionary measures, while the complaints of Vlatko Sajkovski […]

The “Empire” is safe


The flood in the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office destroyed evidence from one of the most important cases – “Empire”. This news flooded the media yesterday, so that later the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office had to explain that things were quite different. The SPO said that there was no flood in the institution, but that a […]

The “Empire” is safe


The flood in the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office destroyed evidence from one of the most important cases – “Empire”. This news flooded the media yesterday, so that later the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office had to explain that things were quite different. The SPO said that there was no flood in the institution, but that a […]

Special Prosecutor Janeva: Some may save themselves


Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, is unable to predict what will happen in the future with the cases of this prosecutor’s office, if the new draft law is finally adopted, which will ultimately regulate the status of the SPO and by which the so-called “bombs” can no longer be used as evidence in over twenty […]

Supreme Court releases businessmen from SPO’s ‘Empire’ case


The Supreme Court accepted the appeals and the businessmen Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandeleski and Nenad Josifovic, suspects in the investigation of the SPO’s Empire case, are coming out of house arrest. This information is unofficial and is expected to be confirmed during the day. According to legal opinion established by Supreme judges in a general […]

Politics waits for the SPO to bleed to death


The court decision on the possible abolition of the house arrest measure for the defendants in the case “Imperia” Orce Kamcev and Saso Mijalkov, which according to the information, can be brought today, according to legal experts, must not be based on the principal legal opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the deadline in which […]

Mijalkov faces up to five years in prison


Yesterday, the former head of secret police Saso Mijalkov, after the end of the Titanic 2 hearing, met and greeted the leader of the Democratic Party of Albanians, Menduh Thaci. Soon they will both hear the verdict on the election irregularities they arranged together in the 2013 local elections in order to repeat the vote […]

Vice Zaev was not offended by the alleged coalition with Mijalkov, but for the business


Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s brother Vice Zaev yesterday did not appear at the pre-trial hearing in the civil court, where he filed a defamation lawsuit against VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski. Zoran and Vice’s cousin Goran Zaev came to court as his attorney. The public was almost certain that Vice Zaev sued Nikoloski for the […]

Court orders house arrest for Saso Mijalkov


A Skopje court ordered house arrest for the former secret police head, Saso Mijalkov, who is one of the defendants in the so called ‘Empire’ case. He is the fifth defendant, after Jordan Kamcev, Nenad Josifovic, Zorica Arsovska and Cvetan Pandelevski, to be put under house arrest. The house arrest motion was submitted to the […]

Ex-UBK chief Mijalkov stays in Sutka


The Criminal Council rejected the appeal of former director of the Security and Counterintelligence Directorate, Saso Mijalkov, therefore he is staying in the investigative prison in Sutka. The judges confirmed that Mijalkov was a flight risk and a threat to influencing witnesses, and confirmed the judge’s decision on a pre-trial procedure that ordered detention for […]

Mijalkov gets another 30-day detention in SPO’s ‘Empire’ case


Upon request of the SPO, the Skopje Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention in ‘Empire’ case and revoked detention order in ‘Target-Fortress’ case for Macedonia’s former UBK director Saso Mijalkov, announced the Criminal Court. Criminal Court ordered a 30-day detention on grounds of flight risk and influencing witnesses. The Special Prosecutor’s Office launched new investigation under […]

Government’s PR or enforcement of justice?


On November 13, the day when former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced that he had fled to Budapest, the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, claimed to the Macedonian public that there was no reason to demand detention for his cousin Saso Mijalkov. “There are already measures for Saso Mijalkov and he respects them, as Nikola […]

Defense to appeal detention order for former UBK director Mijalkov


The defense of the ex-secret police head, Saso Mijalkov, who was detained late on Tuesday, said it would file an appeal by the end of the day. To order detention is unheard of without the defendant being summoned and questioned, Mijalkov’s lawyers claim. “The Law on Criminal Procedure stipulates that every individual should be summoned […]

Former UBK director Mijalkov in detention for the Target case


 On the request of the Special Prosecution Office (SPO) the Skopje Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention for the former Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Saso Mijalkov. The detention measure is ordered under the ‘Target-Fortress’ case, SPO said. Former UBK officials Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskoski, former minister of interior […]

The cousins are the only untouchables left


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 […]

Former UBK director Mijalkov doesn’t know where Gruevski is


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 […]

Mijalkov shakes or strengthens Mickoski’s position


On Monday evening, the president of the Youth Forces Union of VMRO-DPMNE Luka Krzaloski with his crew was in Strumica where they watched the exhibition and the documentary film about the revolutionaries from that part of Macedonia. Thirty hours later, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s Young Forces resigned. He thought about it long and hard, but […]

Mijalkov is waiting on Mickoski to see if he will file a lawsuit


Former director of the UBK, Saso Mijalkov, who was expelled from VMRO-DPMNE, appeared in the courtroom today for the “Titanic 2” case for election irregularities. Mijalkov was not available for statements and said that he had come here for trial and that he would give a statement on another occasion. Asked whether he would file […]

Did they get into a fight after their post-referendum meeting?


VMRO-DPMNE refuses to respond to the letter sent by the excluded Saso Mijalkov to the party leadership. The estimates in the “White Palace” are that any further interference into the quarrel with the man they consider the main culprit for the division in the Parliament will bring only harm, especially as it was clearly known […]