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Analysis: A dynamic week in Macedonia with arrests, trials and verdicts

The week began with arrests for the tragic bus accident and embezzlement in the intelligence services and ended with a terrorism verdict in court. From the 18 defendants without amnesty in the organized terrorist attack on the Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia on April 27, 2017, 16 were sentenced to a total of 211 years in prison on...

Appellate Court dismisses the appeals of Chavkov, Jovanovski, Durlovski and Ilievski

The Appellate Court has dismissed the appeals of eleven people, all suspected of causing violence in Parliament on April 27th, 2017, including former Minister of Interior, Mitko Chavkov, actor Vlado Jovanovski, former director of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet Igor Durlovski and Bogdan Ilievski – Batman, who still remain in custody after the Criminal Courts ruling. Some of the decisions...

PPO requests the detention to be extended for Chavkov, Ilievski, Damovski and Durlovski

The Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption requested that the Criminal Court extend the detention of suspects connected to the violence in the Parliament on April 27th.. "The Public Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption submitted to the competent Basic Court Skopje 1 a proposal for the continuation of the pronounced detention measure...

Chavkov and 35 persons are being charged for endangering the constitutional order and safety

The Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption announced that it had completed the pre-trial procedure for the violence that occurred in Parliament on April 27th of this year and opened an investigation against a total of 36 persons. The statement does not mention the individuals who are suspects, however, was is certain, is that the former Interior Minister...

This morning, Chavkov, Mukoski, and actor Vlado Jovanovski were taken into custody

Early this morning, Mitko Chavkov, former director of the Public Security Bureau at the Ministry of Interior, was taken into custody after the Public Prosecution issued a warrant, “Meta” learned from sources within the investigation. His detainment is within the framework of the investigation into the violence that occurred on April 27th, this year, in Parliament. At the time, Mr...

Today the Government should dismiss Chavkov and Atanasovski and appoint new directors of UBK and BJB

Today, the new Government should be holding a session, and according to recent announcements, the agenda will be the dismissal of the current Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Vladimir Atanasovski, and the current Director of the Public Security Bureau (BJB), Mitko Chavkov. After their dismissal, the Government is expected to appoint new directors for the two...

Nuhiu submits a request to the Government for the dismissal of Chavkov from the Public Security Bureau

There is no going back, things need to be sorted out until the end and everyone will bear the responsibility of their actions, said Interior Minister, Agim Nuhiu, at a press conference at the MOI, where he said that he had submitted a request to the Government to dismiss Mitko Chavkov from the position of Director of the Public...

Chavkov defends himself: No one informed me that a Parliament Speaker was going to be selected

Mitko Chavkov, Director of the Public Safety Bureau, held a press conference this afternoon and gave his view on yesterday’s events in Parliament. He complained that he hadn’t been informed that a Parliament Speaker was going to be declared, and said that the police had no information or reports of any possible incidents. He stressed that they would need...

Mitko Chavkov boasts on “Facebook” that he attended training exercises for special forces

The Director of the Public Security Bureau, which is under the MOI, Mitko Chavkov, boasted yesterday and today on his facebook profile that he had attended training exercises for the Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) and published photos. Today, he published a seven minute long video from the training exercises with a lot of shooting. The RDU were training at Penush,...

MIO arrest two people in operation to hunt terrorists in the Balkans

Last week, the Ministry of Interior arrested two people after reading intelligence reports that the two were involved in preparing terrorist attacks in the country. Today at a press conference, the Director of the PSB (Public Safety Bureau), Mitko Chavkov informed the public that the operation was part of a regional anti-terrorism operation involving Macedonian, Albanian and Kosovan authorities. Within the...

Andonov: Janeva has raised the question of national security

Katica Janeva has taken precedence which could jeopardize national security, alleged additional Deputy Interior Minister, Oliver Andonov, the Director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Chavkov, and Viktor Atnasovski, Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), after Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva and prosecutor Lence Ristoska gave a statement just after midnight. at 1:00am. Andonov accused Janeva of...

Minister for one day – Tactical move by the VMRO-DPMNE to gain control over MOI before elections

Appointing Oliver Andonov, a former professor at the MIT university in Skopje, an activist for the Civil Movement for Defense of Macedonia (GDOM), as minister of the Interior for a day is the latest tactical manoeuvre of the VMRO-DPMNE. The ruling party has done this to secure key positions with the personnel in the Interior Ministry so they can...

Chavkov: We advertised now, because we will not be able to during elections

The advertisement for the recruitment of 600 new police officers for the MOI is intended to strengthen the capacity of the ministry, to balance the number of new officers with those retiring and to fulfill the European average of police numbers, said today the Minister of Interior, Mitko Chavkov at a press conference. According to the Minister, the number of 600...

Chavkov: The establishment of a special court within the MOI is an illogical solution

The Minister of Interior, Mitko Chavkov, believes that the formation of a special department within the Ministry of Interior for the cases led by the Special Prosecution’s Office is illogical. According to him, the current Law on Criminal Procedure allows any Prosecutor’s Office to ask, and representatives from the MOI will be made available. “I am not part of that process,...

Parliament has returned Chavkov and Spasov as Ministers, for SDSM it is a fatal scenario

Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, at the beginning of the first session after the Constitutional Court has put on hold all previously brought decisions, concluded the resignations of Ministers Interior and Labour and Social Policy Oliver Spasovski and Frosina Remenski, as well as additional Deputy Ministers from the SDSM. Immediately afterwards "new" ministers were chosen - Mitko Chavkov for Interior...

The SEC rejected the complaints by Mitko Chavkov

As if unrelated to the elections, the State Election Commission (SEC) rejected the complaints from the Deputy Minister of Interior, Mitko Chavkov regarding the three decisions made by Minister Oliver Spasovski concerning the appointing of certain Head's of Departments. The three decisions are regarding the appointment of Primislav Dimovski, the new Head of the “Alfa” unit, the appointment of Branko Rakic ​​as...

Chakov via Telegram Orders UBK and BJB to Implement the Ruling by the Constitutional Court

Mitko Chavkov via telegram, ordered the UBK (Administration for Security and Counter-intelligence) and the BJB ( Bureau for Public Safety) to implement the ruling made by the Constitutional Court. Deputy Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov this morning by telegram informed the Directors of the Public Security Bureau and the Administration for Security, and Counter-intelligence that they're obligated to implement the ruling of the...

Spasovski commends police officers while Chavkov condemns Greek colleagues

I commend the Macedonian police officers, who handled the whole situation very well despite injured colleagues, said Interior Minister Oliver Spasvoski, who last night with Deputy Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov visited policemen who were injured in the clash with a group of migrants on the border with Greece. Deputy Minister of Interior Chavkov said that because of the specific situation,...

Three more resignations in Gruevski’s Government

Three more Ministers from the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's Government have resigned. The Minister Of Interior Mitko Chavkov, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Dime Spasov and the Deputy Minister of Information Society and Administration Marta Arsovska Tomovska, according to the Przhino Agreement, their resignations were submitted today tin Parliament. Parliament today also welcomed the proposal of appointing new Deputy Ministers...

President Ivanov and Minister Chavkov discussed the refugee crisis

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mitko Chavkov discussed measures and actions taken to prevent and deal with the entry of illegal migrants in the regions affected by the crisis situation and their movement through the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. The meeting concluded that all entities involved in the management of this crisis, with...