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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Businessman Orce Kamcev, who is in custody in the Sutka investigative prison, cannot be bailed out of custody. His lawyer filed an appeal on Saturday to the judge’s decision to give Kamcev a pre-trial detention order for a thirty-day detention. The court should decide whether Kamcev’s appeal will be accepted with which he requests his […]
The chances of depriving the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate due to the final verdict on the case ‘Tank’ are very small. The two-thirds majority, which passed the decision to join the constitutional changes, is unlikely to be repeated in the case of Gruevski. His until recently fellow party members, who […]
At the request of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, a judge of the Basic Court Skopje 1 issued a decision imposing a temporary measure for freezing property of the political party VMRO-DPMNE. The measure has frozen a total of 69 real estate properties, including the building where the party’s headquarters are located, the SPO said. […]
Constitutional judges at one of the next sessions will decide on the fate of lawyer Elenko Milanov’s initiative, who is the defense attorney of some of the former high-ranking officials of VMRO-DPMNE accused in the cases led by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office. The initiative disputes two articles on the amendments to the Criminal Code […]
I hope we should find courage, to overcome party and political prejudices and to take care of the country’s future, because this is unrepeatable opportunity. The decision we make bears huge responsibility and importance for the future of the citizens, and I believe that we, above all, will think of our country, the children and […]
The Special Public Prosecution (SPO), tasked with investigating high-level crimes, said Wednesday that it has opened six new investigations. They probe allegations involving financial damage to the national budget estimated at nearly €80 million. Each investigation has its codename, namely Gift, Propaganda, Design, Harmony, Base Stations and Patient. Former finance minister Zoran Stavreski and former […]
Former minister of interior Gordana Jankuloska has been sentenced to six years in prison in the case dubbed “Tank” over abuse of office regarding the procurement procedure of a new vehicle ‘Mercedes’ worth more than EUR 600,000. Jankuloska, whose trial was separated from that of the other defendants due to her pregnancy, was not present […]
The Appellate Court in Skopje dismissed an appeal by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, as being ‘groundless’, against a ruling over a two-year prison sentence. The Skopje court partially upheld an appeal by a defendant, namely the former associate interior minister, Gjoko Popovski. It changed a section of the sentencing decision and sentenced him to […]
The Appellate Court in Skopje yesterday postponed the hearing on the appeal of the first instance verdict in the case of the Tank case, for which former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison, while the assistant minister in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gjoko Popovski, was sentenced to six years […]
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 […]
More than 900 ‘bombs’ remain to be heard as the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic trial resumes in Skopje’s Criminal Court today. The wiretapped recordings are related to the abuse of power by several former officials in 2012. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former PM Nikola Gruevski. Judge Osman Sabani is presiding the […]
As a woman and as a mother, I will be kind and I will allow the accused Gordana Jankuloska not to appear in court hearings for more than 45 days after delivery, but after August 29, no excuses, nor sick leave will be permitted. Judge Dobrila Kacarska responded to former Interior Minister Jankuloska at yesterday’s […]
“The costs agreed by the Bitola mayor Vladimir Taleski with the carriers are ten times higher than the real prices. He has made corrupt tenders and now he wants us to cover it.” This was said by former Minister of Finance Zoran Stavreski to former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska in a telephone conversation, which was […]
Citing pregnancy complications, defendant Gordana Jankuloska did not show up at Thursday’s hearing for the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic case. The hearing has been postponed for July 3. Jankuloska’s lawyer Sanja Aleksic said that the former Interior Minister was unable to attend the hearing because of her current condition and delivered a medical certificate. Public […]
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is expected to appear in court this week on three other cases opened by the Special Prosecution. Today, he has been summoned to appear in court regarding the so called “Titanic” case, where, along with his party fellow peers, he’s accused of electoral rigging, vote buying, destruction of electoral materials […]
