18 September 2019
The Head of the Public Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption, Vilma Ruskoska has requested that the detention for the former Head of the Special Public Prosecution Katica Janeva be extended and the request was filed today. Yesterday, attorney Irena Frchkoska, who represents Janeva, filed a request for canceling the detention. Ruskoska demands an extension […]
4 September 2019
Due to the statute of limitations for felony of revealing the identity of a protected witness, journalist Tomislav Kezarovski will not be put on trial for the case “Liquidation”. Prosecutor Marija Gjorgjeva announced that the majority of the criminal acts for which the accused were pursued are a subject to a statute of limitations. Kezarovski […]
22 August 2019
The Criminal Court in Skopje ordered a 30-day detention for the special public prosecutor Katica Janeva. That was upon the request of the Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption for the Racket case and it was requested due to suspicions of abuse of official position and authority in order to obtain personal benefits“. Prosecutor Vilma […]
8 August 2019
The Italian newspaper “La Veritá” (The Truth) in its online issue published parts of video footage and audio recordings related to the case “Racket” in North Macedonia, in which Bojan Jovanovski – “Boki 13” and Zoran Milevski – “Kičeec” are suspected of money extortion in order to influence the Special Prosecutor’s Office’s case “Empire”. For […]
20 May 2019
Since the Supreme Court returned the case against journalist Tomislav Kezarovski for a return trial, today, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) at a press conference demanded that the Basic Public Prosecution should withdraw and the Criminal Court should reject the charges against the journalist. AJN’s President, Mladen Chadikovski, announced that this morning they […]
15 March 2019
The court has accepted three out of six detention requests from the Basic Public Prosecution regarding the bus accident at the village of Laskarci last month when 15 passingers were killed. The driver who was driving with higher speed, the owner of the Durmo Tours company and the manager were taken into detention. “Acting upon […]
13 March 2019
The former Minister of Interior and Director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Chavkov was taken into custody last night and was escorted to jail in Shutka. The decision for the detention was based upon an official report from information that was received from a close friend of Chavkov. According to the information gathered by […]
5 December 2017
Hundreds of VMRO-DPMNE’s members and sympathizers protested this evening in front of the Ministry of Justice demanding freedom and amnesty for the people in detention for the violent attacks at the Parliament of the 27th of April. Among the people taken in detention are the MPs Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Sasho Vasilevski, Zaklina Peshevska, […]
26 November 2017
The mayor of municipality Pustec in Albania, Edmond Temelko, who was charged in the SPO’s “Titanic” case, from the prison in Skopje in the area of Shuto Oriari he will be put under house arrest. The Criminal court in Skopje has decided to change the measure detention with house arrest, confirms the court. As the […]
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 […]
1 July 2017
The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE has issued an appeal to the court not to succumb to threats and pressure that are made regarding the charges that were filed by the Special Public Prosecution against high-ranking party officials and former ministers, among which is VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader and former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski. The party stresses that […]
29 June 2017
Today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office filed 17 indictments for 18 cases, against 94 individuals and 7 legal entities, stated the chief Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, adding that solid evidence has been provided for all the cases. She noted that the time-frame for investigations and enquiries was not long enough for all the material to be […]
2 June 2017
The Public Prosecutor’s Office have launched a preliminary investigation and have requested that Ljupco Stojanovski be remanded into custody, who yesterday fired a gun at the former Minister of Health, Nikola Todorov. “The suspect is being charged for two crimes, murder under Article 123 in relation to Article 19 and the illegal manufacture, possession and […]
13 May 2017
The custody for the businessman Sead Kočan, a prime suspect in the “Trust” case that is led by the Special Public Prosecution has been canceled, reports Alsat-M. According to the information provided by this TV station, this decision was made yesterday. With it, apparently, the domestic and the international arrest warrant for Kočan which has […]
29 March 2017
Today the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, withdrew the request for protection of the legality from the Supreme Court that was submitted by the Public Prosecutor Marko Zvrlevski on Monday, regarding the custody for businessman Sead Kočan, the prime suspect in the “Trust” case. In the letter to the court, marked “Very Urgent”, Janeva refers to […]
10 March 2017
The Criminal Council at the Basic Court Skopje accepted the appeal from the Special Public Prosecution and has decided to detain the businessman Sead Kočan, who is one of the three suspects in the SPO’s “Trust” case, confirmed the court for Meta. The court said that a warrant has been issued for Kočan. The Criminal Council […]
1 December 2016
Ljudmil Kljusev, the son of the first Prime Minister to an independent Macedonia, Nikola Kjlusev, stood before District Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, USA and pleaded guilty to distributing narcotics outside of the scope of professional practice, and health care fraud, said a statement to “Meta” by the United States Department of Justice. According to […]
15 June 2016
The Judge from the preliminary hearing rejected the requests from the Special Public Prosecution for pre-trial detention for Goran Grujovski, and other precautionary measures for four of the other suspects in the “Fortress” case, including former Interior Minister, Gordana Januloska. The Judge, Aleksandra Pop-Stefanova acting upon the requests from the SPO, based her decision, as […]
13 February 2016
The Basic Court in Skopje has rejected the Special Prosecutor’s request for 8 suspects to be taken into custody, the request is linked to electoral irregularities in the ongoing operation ‘Titanic’. The Court came to the decision to reject the SPP’s request for the detention of Edmond Temelko, Mile Janakieski and two other suspects arising […]
28 December 2015
When the Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva gave her consent to the proposal brought by the defence attorneys of Zoran Veruvshevski and Gorgi Lazarevski in the “Putsch” case for them to to be released from remand, it caused quite a heated reaction from the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE. They responded that the ‘people could turn on her’, […]
