Former intelligence officer Zoran Verushevski sues the state for €71,000 after spending 344 days in detention over the ‘Coup’ case and over unlawful possession of a firearm. Verushevski, who is the current PM Zoran Zaev’s aide for security, has filed the lawsuit before the Civil Court in Skopje. The ‘Coup’ case was opened in January […]
The Skopje Court ordered 30-day detention for Bojan Jovanovski, aslo known as Boki 13, and Zoran Milevski, suspected of accepting a reward for unlawful influence and money laundering. Elaborating the case and evidence collected to open the investigation, Prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska at a news conference earlier in the day failed to reveal the suspects’ identities, […]
The Skopje-based Criminal Court has extended the detention of former Administration for Security and Counterintelligence head Vladimir Atanasovski by another thirty days. Vladimir Atanasovski is suspected of crime ‘association for enemy activity’ over the 27 April 2017 events in Parliament. The former UBK chief Atanasovski was arrested in December after two witnesses in the case singled […]
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 […]
The Skopje Criminal Court ordered a 30-day detention to former director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Vladimir Atanasovski in relation to his involvement in the events of 27 April 2017 in Parliament. He was arrested late Tuesday on charges of “association for purposes of hostile activity” under the Criminal Code and was […]
The trial in the Parliament storming case continues Friday for a third day in a Skopje court with opening statements of defense lawyers representing defendants accused for participating in the violent incidents on 27 April 2017. 33 people, including lawmakers, former office holders, public figures, policemen, are tried in one of the most complex cases […]
