5 December 2017
After today’s testomonies, the Criminal Court ruled that MPs Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Saso Vasilevsk be taken into custody and detained. Those MPs are suspected of the violence in Parliament on April 27th. Their colleagues, Žaklina Peshevska, Johan Tarculovski and Ljupco Dimovski, received a measure of house arrest. Mukoski, Arnaudov and Vasilevski were accompanied […]
24 November 2017
The Supreme Court has abolished the verdicts for the “Monster” case and returned the case for a retrial. The court ruled that it accepts the appeals of the defendants for the multiple murders at Smiljkovsko Lake, which occurred on April 12th, 2012. With the verdict from the highest court in the country, rulings from the […]
5 November 2017
Among the chants of mostly “UÇK”, under a strong police presence, the protest against the verdicts of the “Divo Naselje” case finished. No incidents were reorted. The crowd that started their protest from Skenderbeg Square and headed towards Basic Court Skopje 1, where the verdicts for the defendants were announced, chants could be heard, the […]
6 October 2017
The Special Prosecutor’s Office started with an analysis of the materials seized during yesterday’s searches of the offices and the homes of Judge Vladimir Pancevski and two IT employees employed by the court, stated today Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva. The Special Prosecutor said that the seized material were handed over to the Ministry of Interior’s […]
5 October 2017
Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva with investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs today searched the office of judge Vladimir Pancevski, against whom, according to Janeva, the SPO is conducting a pre-trial procedure due to abuses of the system for the allocation of court cases and for disclosing official secrets. The SPO’s search in the Criminal […]
3 October 2017
Today, the Public Prosecutor, Liljana Spasoska, at today’s public session of the “Monster” case in the Supreme Court asked for the annulment of the verdicts of the Criminal and Appellate Courts and the case be returned for a retrial. The Supreme Court in a public session today reviewed the appeals of the six convicts who […]
26 September 2017
The defense team of Sasho Mijalkov, who stands accused in the “Target” case, are still waiting for an answer from the Criminal Court regarding their request to have Mr Mijalkov’s passport returned to him, after it was confiscated some time ago. Mijalkov’s lawyer, Ljupco Shrgovski, stated that returning passports was normal practice in the judicial […]
20 September 2017
VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski and his cousin Sasho Mijalkov, former Head of the Security and Counterintelligence Service (UBK) have requested from the Criminal Court to return their passports, which were taken away as a guarantee that they would not leave the country due to the charges against them by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, “Television […]
18 September 2017
By freezing the assets of VMRO-DPMNE’s property (the party headquarters), a ban would be imposed on party leaders so they can not sell those property and therefore they cannot cause additional damage to the political party, stated SPO Prosecutor Lence Ristoska after the session in the Supreme Court. The session was on the occasion of […]
3 July 2017
Today, the Criminal Court, Skopje, should announce the latest decisions regarding the request for custody for the officials from VMRO-DPMNE and also for the former ministers accused in the “Titanic” case, led by the Special Prosecutor’s Office. It is regarding the requests for custody for Nikola Gruevski, Martin Protuger, Gordana Jankulovska, Mile Janakieski and Kiril […]
2 July 2017
The Criminal Councils of Basic Court Skopje I rejected the request by the Special Prosecutor’s Office to remand the former Director of the Administration for Security and Counter Intelligence (UBK), Saso Mijalkov into custody, as unfounded. He is the prime suspect in the cases “Target” and “Fortress”, which the SPO have merged into one case. […]
1 July 2017
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 […]
22 February 2017
In the 72-year existence of the Basic Court Skopje 1, there has never been such behavior and contempt of court, judiciary and towards a judge conducting proceedings, as shown by Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva and SPO prosecutor, Fatime Fetai, at today’s hearing concerning the violence outside the municipality Center in June 2013, reacted the […]
22 December 2016
The new presidents of the Supreme Court and Basic Court Skopje 1 will be selected in the New Year, confirmed today the President of the Judicial Council, Zoran Karadzovski, as special evaluations for candidates are still ongoing for the position in both courts. The Judicial Council, said Karadzovski, must respect the deadline of eight days […]
5 December 2016
The Acting President of the Criminal Court in Skopje will be Judge Tatjana Mikhailova, while Acting President in the Supreme Court will be Judge Snezana Bajlozova. This was decided at today’s meeting by the Judicial Council, by a majority vote and the two female judges were selected at this functions. Otherwise Tatjana Mikhailova will be […]
3 December 2016
The Judicial Council of the Republic of Macedonia at a session, scheduled for Monday at 11:00 am, to select the Acting Presidents of the Supreme Court and the Basic Court Skopje 1. The decision on determining the Acting Presidents of the Supreme and Criminal Court in Skopje is the second item on the agenda of […]
28 November 2016
Nine out of the thirteen judges who submitted a complaint to the Basic Court Skopje 1 against the President of the Criminal Court Vladimir Panchevski, today responded to an invitation and appeared at the Judicial Council and met with members and the President of the Council, Zoran Karadzovski. Karadzovski stated after, that the meeting passed […]
22 November 2016
Today the Criminal Court in Skopje should continue the hearing of the trial on the case “Bribery”, in which the leader of the opposition, the SDSM and the Mayor of Strumica, Zoran Zaev stand accused. Zaev, according to the prosecution, is being charged for bribery. Allegedly, the Mayor of Strumica demanded a bribe of 163,924 euros […]
17 November 2016
Even though the largest Criminal Court in the country, Basic Court Skopje 1, is turning into a circus and the European Commission’s report on Macedonia’s progress noted serious shortcomings in the judicial system and not to mention the obstruction of the Special Public Prosecution’s work, the most responsible person for the judicial system in the […]
21 October 2016
The Criminal Court in Skopje has received the proposal the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) submitted, and requests that two of the suspects in the “Tenders” case have their passports confiscated and report to the court every Tuesday, the court told “Meta”. The SPO application has already been distributed to the judge for the preliminary […]
