Tag: illegal wiretapping

Sasho Mijalkov, the former Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), was sentenced in Skopje, North Macedonia, to 12 years in prison in the "Target - Tvrdina" court case, on charges for criminal association, abuse of office and receiving reward for illegal influence. The "Target - Tvrdina" case refers to the illegal wiretapping of 20.000 citizens in the...

The Interior Ministry (MOI) of North Macedonia informs that a national arrest warrant was issued for Sasho Mijalkov. The reason for that is because: "with all undertaken measures and activities, this person still hasn't been located," said MOI, who have been looking for Mijalkov since yesterday in order to hand him over the decision for house arrest. Since this...

The trial "Target-Tvrdina" about the illegal wiretapping in the period between 2008 and 2015 continued today at the Criminal Court in Skopje. The former UBK's Director Sasho Mijalkov and the former Minister of Interior Gordana Jankuloska, the fugitives Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boshkovski, Toni Jakimovski, but also several employees of the former UBK, have been accused of illegal wiretapping...

The illegal wiretapping led to a great social crisis in the Republic of Macedonia, but this is not the first time monitoring systems have been abused in the country, stated the State Attorney General, Marko Zvrlevski at a conference on the topic “Monitoring Communications – Legal framework and the experiences of the Attorney General”, which is being held today...