Tag: Jail

A judge from the previous hearing, has ordered that one of the suspects in the "Transporter" case be detained for the pre-trial period of 30 days. The case, began by the Special Prosecutors Office (SPO) the suspect faces three charges which relate to paragraph 165 of the Criminal Procedure Code, while three other suspects received specific measures of caution,...

The Special Public Prosecution (SPP) this afternoon announced that they had submitted an appeal to the High Court of Appeals in Skopje against the decision made by the Criminal Panel of the Basic Court Skopje 1, to release Grujovski under house arrest. The head of the Security and Counter intelligence (UBK) otherwise known as the fifth administration, Goran Grujovski,...

Yesterday's events are the best proof that there were no foreign agencies involved, there were no yellow vans, there was no cut or edited conversations, said Vice President of the SDSM, Damjan Manchevski when he was asked to comment on yesterday's press conference by the Special Public Prosecution on the case "Fortress". "Yesterday's events are the best proof that Nikola...

The Criminal Court has bowed to the request of the Special Public Prosecution (SPP) and ordered that Goran Grujovski be detained for a period of 30 days. He is the first suspect in the case known as "Fortress". It has been officially confirmed by the Basic Court Skopje 1, that a chief of the Fifth Department otherwise known as...

Munir Pepik, an employee at the police station Centar, according to (for now) unconfirmed information, a suspect in Operation "Titanic" whose home is in Batinci, has been searched at the request of the Special Public Prosecution (SPP). Apart from confirming that this morning a police operation was conducted, there is still no official information on whether anything was found and...

The former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, made her first public appearance in an interview after her resignation after almost a year ago. She was interviewed by “Press24” which is run by journalists from “Sitel”, Aleksander Spasovski-Sarma and Slavica Arsova. In the interview, Jankuloska claims that she has not committed any crimes and that the investigation against her lead by the...

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva held a press conference where she announced the first operation undertaken by her office. It has been dubbed "Titanic". The Special Prosecutor explained that in Operation Titanic official investigations were launched into former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, the former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski (even though their names were not explicitly mentioned) and...

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1, which is made up of three judges, dismissed the Special Prosecutor's appeals as on the grounds they were unfounded in regard to the Judge's decision at the Preliminary proceedings that former Minister of Transport & Communications Mile Janakieski, and the Mayor of Pustec in Albania Edmond Temelko,  as well as...

  All people who are currently in custody should be released, said SDSM leader Zoran Zaev at today's debate on free civil society and social justice, which was held at the "Holiday Inn" in Skopje. He asked why petty criminals were in jail while suspects of organized crime are still at large. According to him, the decisions of the Criminal Court...

As witnessed recently the Criminal Court Skopje 1 proceedings will be conducted to the very last detail and will delay appeals made by the Special Prosecutor at the preliminary hearings, and the decisions made by the judges involved. They dismissed pre-trial detention requests for suspects in Operation “Titanic”. Practically, since Friday, following the SPP's press conference, the countdown to deadlines has...

The Judge of the preliminary procedure rejected the request from the Special Public Prosecutor's Office and decided not to take into custody for pre-trial detention the former Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska, and the Secretary General of the Government Kiril Bozinovski, both prime suspects in Operation "Titanic." Jankuloska, Bozinovski and two other people were yesterday questioned at a preliminary proceeding before a Judge from...

The questioning of the former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska came to an end at the Criminal Court after a for a several hours. Neither Jankulosksa or her lawyer, Nikola Dodevski would to comment on the questioning or the outcome of the hearing. The Judge has to decide whether to accept or reject the request from the Special Prosecutor's Office and will determine whether to...

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1 have terminated the jail detentions of Zoran Verushevski and Georgi Lazarevski who are both accused in the case "Putsch", the Basic Court Skopje 1 announced this afternoon. The court granted the proposed guarantee from the defence, and the proposal of the Special Prosecutor to prohibit the defendants leaving their residences, the city...

The former Director for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) Zoran Verushevski, who is the first accused in the “Putsch” case, spent another night detained in county jail 'Skopje' confirms the Basic Court Skopje 1, and the defendants defence lawyers for 'Meta'. When we asked where was Verushevski at this moment, the court said that he is detained in the county jail...

The Criminal Council from the Basic Court Skopje 1 today decided terminate the jail detention of the former Director of the Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK), Zoran Verushevski charged in the case "Putsch", announced today the "Utrinski." According to the newspapers sources, they wrote that Verushevski, who is expected to be under house arrest, was released allegedly by the decision of...

The Criminal Council from the Basic Court Skopje 1 has asked the Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva to submit the passports of Zoran Verushevski and Georgi Lazarevski in order to decide on the proposals on the termination or replacement of the jail detention of the two accused in the case "Putsch" announced the Basic Court Skopje 1 today. "Acting on the...

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', i.e. GDOM (Civil Defence...

Dozens of journalists and citizens gathered today in front of the Museum of Revolutionary Struggle, to mark the anniversary of the protest when journalist Tomislav Kezarovski was arrested. The Kezarovski family also attended the the gathering for the anniversary. The initiative to mark this day was Tomislav Kezarovski himself. On his profile on the social network "Facebook", he wrote that...

The Judge from the prior procedure ordered that five out of the seven suspects that were arrested yesterday in the police operation "Molnja" were to be detained on remand for 30 days and the other two - house arrest, said the Basic Court Skopje 1 yesterday afternoon. The suspects are accused of aiding terrorist organizations and terrorism, and one of...

Katica Janeva as Special Prosecutor in charge of the Prosecution part of the proceedings in the case "Putsch", among other things, will have to explain and after the incarceration and other measures to ensure that they are certain of the defendants in the case, among them the leader of the SDSM, Zoran Zaev and the former Director of the...