29 November 2017
Basic Court Skopje 1 issued a press release which informs that on request of Basic Public Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption (OJO), the judge has ordered a 30-day detention for 13 persons, while 6 people were placed under a house arrest. The Preliminary Proceedings Judge has accepted the motion and has ordered a 30-day […]
1 November 2017
The former mayor of Gjorce Petrov municipality, Sokol Mitrevski, was taken into custody this morning, confirmed for Meta agency sources from the ongoing investigation. According to unofficial information, Mitrevski was arrested for misuse of his position and authorizations, regarding the illegal re-allocation of land on the territory of the municipality and the illegal approval of […]
20 October 2017
The activities for locating and arresting the former heads of UBK, Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski was a “regional effort” and several services took part in, said the Minister of Interior, Oliver SPasovski in an interview for the “30” TV show on “Alsat-M” TV. -This is an action that was worked on regionally i.e. several […]
21 September 2017
Igor Jug, one of the participants in the violence that outbursted in the Parliament on the 27th of April this year, was arrested this morning in his apartment in Kumanovo, confirms the Ministry of Interior. MoI informs that the 47-year-old Jug was arrested on a previous order issued by the Basic Public Prosecution dated from […]
6 June 2017
Today marks the sixth year anniversary since protests erupted against police brutality after the murder of Martin Neskovski on June the 5th, 2011, during the celebrations of VMRO-DPMNE’s electoral victory. At the beginning of last year, the Special Prosecutor’s Office took over jurisdiction of the Neskovski murder case. The SPO reports that the case is still […]
13 December 2016
Stojance Velickovic, the Chief of Police in Kumanovo, who the police tried to arrest tonight, was released after the police, on the orders from the Public Prosecutor’s Office searched his home. Velickovic claims that police entered his home at 16:40 pm, executed a search of his property and were specifically looking for documents and records from […]
13 December 2016
Police and special ops units are in front of the home of Kumanovo’s Chief of Police, Stojance Velickovic, who was recently promoted to that position by the MOI, and SDSM’s Oliver Spasovski. In front of the home, there is a group of citizens that will not allow Velickovic to be taken away. “We are gathered […]
8 November 2016
Coordinated anti-terrorist operations have recently been conducted in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo, designed to arrest people suspected of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in the Balkans. According to information published yesterday by the Albanian and Kosovo press, suspects had been detained for allegedly planning terrorist operations in the Balkans. The Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed […]
15 July 2016
The judge has rejected the request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office and did not determine precautionary measures to the commander of the “Alfa” police unit, Ivica Antevski – Puki, and five of his fellow colleagues who are also suspects in the “Torture” case, announced the Criminal Court on Thursday. It took nearly 24 hours for […]
9 May 2016
Today, Mariglen Demiri, a member of the Presidium of the Levica party has been called for questioning at the Public Prosecution Office (PPO) Skopje because of his participation in the protests and the damage inflicted on the people’s office of President Gjorge Ivanov. The Levica party has released a statement saying that due to this […]
29 March 2016
Video and text articles from reports of the arrest of Ljube Boskoski on June 6, 2011, have mysteriously disappeared from the websites of the TV stations that at the time, had reported on the sensational story of the events outside restaurant “Vodenica”. Yesterday, Katica Janeva’s team of prosecutors announced that they have opened an official investigation dubbed “Tortura” […]
28 March 2016
The former Director of the Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Saso Mijalkov is the first suspect in the case “Tortura”, it is said he and another 6 suspects, members of the police unit “Alfa” arrested Ljube Boskovski the leader of the party United for Macedonia in an inhumane and brutal way, one day after the 2011 […]
28 March 2016
Katica Janeva, the Special Public Prosecutor at today’s press conference announced a new investigation her office has opened under the code-name “Tortura.” As explained by prosecutor Fatime Fetai, the case “Tortura” is in connection with the arrest of the President of a United Macedonia, Ljube Boskovski. The proposed case is an investigation against 7 persons […]
25 December 2015
The Special Prosecution did not request for Zoran Verushevski’s detention to be replaced with house arrest as some of the media has reported. Zoran Verushevski, charged in the case “Putsch”, at the request of his defence team, who argued that his detention in jail should be replaced with some sort of guarantee, and the court gave a positive […]
27 November 2015
The Ministry of Interior have arrested 2a 1-year-old man from Skopje, his initials S.R., is suspected to have travelled twice to Syria as a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), announced today the Ministry of Interior. The Skopje resident, according to the Ministry, a few weeks returned from Syria to the […]
17 November 2015
The first Prime Minister of an independent Macedonia, Ljudmil Kljusev’s son, Nikola Kljusev was arrested in the US on charges for “illegally distributing narcotics”, reported the “Fairfield Daily Voice.” Kljusev lived in the United States working as a psychiatrist, was arrested, on November the 12th, accused for distributing narcotics outside of the scope of professional […]
15 October 2015
This morning in Kumanovo and near Skopje there was another police operation to arrest collaborators of the terrorist group that was infiltrated in Divo Naselje, in Kumanovo. The police operation began in the settlement in Kumanovo on the morning of May the 9th, the day originally scheduled for VMRO-DPMNE to gather for a public party […]
25 September 2015
Police have arrested Zlatko Arsovski (37) a protected witness known as Birch in the case of the murder of a old man from Orese, reports “Utrinski Vesnik“. Birch has been detained in Idrizovo Prison. A warrant was out for his arrest because he has a six month prison sentence. He was convicted because of a […]
7 August 2015
Following the hearing yesterday of the nine who were arrested in the action by the Police codenamed Cell , the judge who is leading the case has given them 30 days detention, said in the report by the Primary Court Skopje 1. The 27 suspects who are still being sought after, the judge had given […]
6 August 2015
Teams from the Ministry of Interior (MVR) are conducting an action to arrest individuals who are suspected of fighting in Syria on the side of the Islamist organization, Islamic State (IS). The Deputy Minister of public relations of the MVR, Ivo Kotevski, confirmed the information with Meta. Details of the action will be released later […]
