Mon, 17 February, 2025

Kanceska-Milevska and Pesevski were stripped of their passports, so far no-one is in custody

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The Criminal Council of the Basic Court-Skopje refused the request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for custody for former Minister of Culture, Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska and former Vice Prime Minister for Economic Аffairs, Vladimir Pesevski.

Kancevska-Milevska and Pesevski, who are suspects in the “Tenders” case and the “Trajectory” case led by the SPO, were given precautionary measures – confiscation of passport and every Tuesday they are obliged to report the court and an authorized official, instead of being remanded into custody.

According to the decisions made by the court today, precautionary measures were accepted against over 20 people. Basic court Skopje 1 announced that yesterday evening, that the that the SPO submitted two new cases which are related to the “Titanic”, “Target” and “Fortress”, (the last two cases are going to merged into one case).

Otherwise, Nikola Gruevski, Martin Protuger,Gordana Jankuloska Mile Janakieski, Kiril Bozinovski and Saso Mijalkov have also been charged in these cases. The SPO is asking for custody for all of the suspects mentioned.

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