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The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Оffice Skopje informs that it handed over to the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office Kichevo the criminal charges filed by the Ministry of Interior against the so-called "El Cheka" from Chicago, who for more than a week has been sharing "bombs", i.e., wiretapped conversations of persons mainly from BDI. These talks include talks between officials of BDI...

Four years have passed since the armed conflict in "Divo Naselje", a neighbourhood in the city of Kumanovo. The shooting went on for two days, killing eight members of the security forces from the Interior Ministry and seriously injuring forty. At the same time, among the gun fire, along with eight members of the police force, 10 members of the...

"The bombs" that were already published and still exist on the Internet, will not be destroyed or sanctioned, said the former Minister of Interior Pavle Trajanov, after the Ministry of Justice announced that with the new law of Public Prosecution, SPO will have to destroy the materials from the illegally wiretapped conversations. A problem are the unpublished "bombs" that are...

"The Bombs" that the Special Public Prosecution has will be destroyed, announced yesterday the Ministry of Justice, announcing that the Government has decided SPO's future by placing it in the draft law on the Public Prosecution. But, what will be the procedure like for destroying the materials from the illegally wiretapped conversations, and what will happen to the copies...

Whistle-blowers Gorgi Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski, who revealed the wiretapping affair by the previous regime, are returning to their positions in the Ministry of Interior today. Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski announced it on his Facebook profile, where he also published a photo of the meeting. Lazarevski is a witness in the SPO’s case "Target - Fortress" over the wiretapping. In...

Gjorgji Lazarevski and Dzvonko Kostvoski, whose disclosure of the secret wiretappings led to the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in 2016, should immediately be reinstated to the public sector positions they lost in retaliation, demand three NGOs. Transparency International-Macedonia, the Southeast European Coalition on Whistle-blower Protection, and the European Center for Whistle-blower Rights have long advocated for the rightful...

After the recess in the Criminal Court, the release of the wiretaps in the Titanic case continued. Out of a total 1,063 "bombs", 219 have been released so far. In a conversation that took place on May 31, 2011 between Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Martin Protuger, head of the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevki's office, she tells him that the...

The sale of the bulletproof Mercedes, which was mentioned in some of the "bombs" as the "one beginning with M" has been stopped, in order to avoid any danger of hindering the court process that is taking place regarding the manner it was bought in, said government spokesman, Mile Bosnjakovski, at today's regular press conference. "Although the Special Prosecutor's Office...

More than 1,000 wiretapped conversations will be used as evidence in the trial for the “Titanic” case led by the Special Prosecutor's Office, ruled the Appellate Court in Skopje. The decision of the Appellate Court followed yesterday's public session in court, where the appeal was discussed, after the the Criminal Court on October 20th, dismissed the wiretapped conversations, i.e the...

The Skopje Court of Appeals accepted the Special Prosecutor’s Office appeal against the Criminal Court's decision prohibiting the use of the "bombs" as evidence in the “TNT” and “Toplik” cases. The prime suspect in the "Toplik" case for the "Sunny City" case is former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski, and the "TNT" case refers to the demolition of...

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1's Department for Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption has rejected the request by Nikola Gruevski to have his passport returned, announced the court on its website. At the same time, the wiretapped conversations were removed as evidence in three cases with an explanation that they were illegally acquired. Apart from Gruevski, the...

The Appellate Court Skopje upheld the appeal made by the Special Prosecutor's Office regarding the ruling made by Basic Court Skopje 1 for the "Slaps" case, which is related to the violence outside the Municipality of Centar in June, 2013, and ruled that the evidence obtained from the wiretapped material can be used as evidence in the criminal proceedings. "With this...

The Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, today has shown the "Mercedes" worth 600.000 euros that was bought by the former Minister of Interior, Gordana Jankuloska, through MoI, for the needs of the former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, and for which the general public found out through the 31st "bomb" that was published by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who was...

The "bombs" which were on SDSM’s official Youtube channel are available again since this afternoon. The party told "Meta" that "OMD Network" was the user who previously blocked videos from SDSM, however, it did not last long. “This is not the first time OMD have blocked our videos, they have done it before, it's only now, for the first time that the...

The seventeen “bombs” that were erased from SDSM’s Youtube channel were removed after a report made by “OMD Network,” which is the user who has done the same so far (requesting to remove) “Nova TV’s” videos of the Colorful revolution and the student protests that were published on Youtube, writes “Nova TV.” Still, as it states after the argumentation...

Seventeen “bombs” from SDSM’s official Youtube channel have been removed, and in most of them, according to SDSM, the voice of the former Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader, Nikola Gruevski, can be heard, reported "A1 on". On the deleted "bombs", it says in writing that a company "UMD Network" asked for copyrights, and therefore the content was removed. On SDSM’s channel, the...

The wiretapped conversations, or what are widely known as the “Bombs", released by the opposition, despite bringing changes to the political scene, they have also influenced the rhetoric of politicians at campaign rallies, causing an increase during this election period of nationalistic terms and insults, analysts believe. Terms such as "federalisation", "canonization" and "bilingualism" are just some of the terms...

On the 4th of November, the Special Public prosecutor had requested from the Basic public prosecutor for organized crime and corruption to be submitted the documentation for the case titled “Sopot,” as was announced today by SPP. “The case was requested in order to decide whether it can be taken under the jurisdiction of the special public prosecutor, taking into...

SDSM will not say whether they will use material from the illegal wiretapping, or what is widely known as "Bombs" in their election campaign, but the party has said categorically that there is no ban on their use. The dilemma, however, is, can and should they be used which is being discussed by all sides. "Meta" have spoken on...

The materials from the wiretapped conversations i.e. the “bombs” that were revealed last year by SDSM were subject to linguistic research conducted by one of the most highly regarded linguists, Viktor Friedman. "The research had a linguistic character, regardless whether the materials I was researching were true or false. This was a rare opportunity to gather appropriate material that will...