Tag: court cases

The ex-president of the Criminal Court –Skopje, Vladimir Panchevski, was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for abuse of authority. He was charged with personally selecting and delegating court cases to judges of his liking, thereby circumventing the case delegating software ACMIS. The sentence was passed late last night in the Basic Court – Veles. The prosecution charged...

Despite the evidence from the "Putsch" case, Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva has requested from the court the cases on the murder of Martin Neskovski, and the case “Election Campaign” where Ljube Boskovski was sentenced, announced the Special Public Prosecutor (SPO) today. Janeva's office indicated that court did not appear to be cooperating, they did not want to submit the cases, but...

The requests in the past three months which have been sent to the Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, have now amounted to all cases which have been controversial to the public, and are now arriving on her desk through official channels. Defence attorneys in the cases of "Rover", "Divo Naselje" and "Spjun" demand for these cases to be over taken by...

Katica Janeva's selection of prosecutors stirred some skepticism today, and comments from legal experts. According to Professor Gordon Kalajdziev, who was shortlisted for the position of Special Public Prosecution, but was dismissed at the last moment, said there were a few strange things in the choice of the selected prosecutors. “Firstly, it is obvious that they were politically selected because they...

The NGO Infocentar and the Media Development Center released data regarding the country’s primary courts, obtained through the free access to information of public character. In the period of two years, from November 2012 to December 2014, the nine primary courts in Macedonia (Gostivar, Veles, Strumica, Bitola, Prilep, Shtip, Tetovo, Kumanovo and Skopje 2) have received 520 insult...