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 […]
The trial of electoral irregularities in Cair “Titanic 3”, which is being tried by officials from the ruling DUI, after many delays, accusations between the SPO and the Court and threats from lawyers to prosecutors, is back to the top. The trial judge Olja Ristova has submitted and the court accepted her request for exemption […]
A lawmaker who has been sentenced to a maximum of six months in prison will lose the right to salary and other benefits. That is the essence of the changes of the Law on MPs that were submitted this morning after an urgent procedure in parliament and were immediately added to the agenda of today’s […]
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 […]
The owner of the Kosmos residential complex in Skopje, businessman Fijat Canoski, told the court Wednesday that its demolition was of ‘political nature’. He said he would also seek damages, which was estimated at €40 million during the investigation. Evidence provided by two witnesses were read out loud at today’s trial in the Criminal Court. The […]
The Special Public Prosecutor’s Office should maintain its independence because it proved to be a great solution and it should not be equal in the ranking of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, said Justice Minister Renata Deskoska at today’s press briefing. – I believe that political parties should support the maintenance of the capacity […]
The Council for Evaluation of the Indictment before the holidays held a public session which considered the indictment of the “Thaler” case for the illegal financing of VMRO-DPMNE, but it has not yet decided whether to accept or not the charge for this case of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office. Although some of the media […]
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 Special Prosecutor’s Office has requested that detention is replaced by home arrest for several defendants in the Empire case, the SPO has told MIA. The SPO has requested that Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandeleski and several others are placed under house arrest, while there is no such motion for former UBK chief Saso Mijalkov. The […]
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 […]
Justice Minister Renata Deskoska said today that two options for a Special Public Prosecutor’s Office are under consideration, one for the SPO to be incorporated into the Public Prosecutor’s Office or to become a separate institution. The two versions of the draft laws are available to all stakeholders on the national electronic regulations registry ENER […]
The new criminal charges for high-ranking DUI officials will hardly shake the boat of Ali Ahmeti’s party. Anchored in the style of governance that they have been practicing for ten years since they have been in power, and in the power they have gained through the control of the Albanian voting body, they laugh at […]
Judge in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed Titanic ordered Wednesday a 30-day detention for former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who has fled to Hungary. The detention order will be activated upon Gruevski’s return to the country. Titanic refers to crimes related to election irregularities. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former prime minister […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Parliament has received five motions for termination of the MP immunity of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who recently escaped and received political asylum in Hungary. The motions will be discussed at Tuesday’s session of the Committee for Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues. Gruevski was sentenced to two years imprisonment for abuse of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
