Tag: Katica Janeva

Judge Vladimir Panchevski has accused today that this past Thursday last week has signaled the "complete darkness for justice in Macedonia" with, as he said, the "illegal and brutal search" that was done by the Special Public Prosecution and the investigators from the Ministry of Interior. In an interview for "Alsat-M", Panchevski claims that a search wasn't conducted at...

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 expert unit, but did not...

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 Court started around noon and...

If I am alive and well, when I’m 50 years-old, I want to be a normal head of a state, in a normal country, says the prosecutor from the Special Prosecutor's Office, Fatime Fetai, on the “Trite” show on "A1" TV on the life and work of the three prosecutors Katica Janeva, Lence Ristoska and Fatime Fetai. “With this, I...

An enormous uptick of optimism was noticed among citizens that Macedonia is heading in a good direction and that the economy can develop in less than less than six months, shows the latest poll of the International Republic Institute (IRI) that was conducted in Macedonia. The polls show a significant increase of the trust in Zoran Zaev and SDSM,...

Today, the Special Prosecutor's Office has announced the fourth six-month report regarding the SPO work for the period from 15th of March to 15th of September this year. According to the report, what is characteristic and what distinguishes it from the previous ones is that in this period charges have been submitted for most of the investigations opened by...

"I would be very happy if these people are innocent and if all charges against them are dropped. If someone has proof that I work against certain people or something similar, I dare him to say that publicly" said today the Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva when she was asked to comment the findings from yesterday's press conference by VMRO-DPMNE's...

After the press conference this afternoon, where Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva announced that she submitted 17 indictments against 97 people and seven legal entities, teams from the SPO started transporting evidence to the Basic Court Skopje I. The evidence, packed in ten boxes, was transported in vans to the Criminal Court, and as Janeva announced, today and tomorrow there will...

Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva expects to find a solution within a short period of time to extend the deadline for filing charges and announced that in the period that follows, the SPO will continue to open investigations into other wiretapped conversations that result in criminal offenses. This, Janeva stated from Ohrid, where she os participating in the first edition...

Reinhard Priebe, the head of the commission, who on behalf of the EU in 2015, prepared a list of the necessary reforms the country needs to overcome the obstacles on the path towards EU membership, will be holding a lecture at the Ohrid School of Natural Science on Friday called "Democracy and the rule of law". His arrival in the...

Starting from today, the Special Public Prosecution (SPO) will not be able to file charges for the cases it took over from the Basic Public Prosecutions on the 4th of December 2015 i.e. a total of 34 cases. This was agreed upon from the articles in the Law for the SPO with which the deadline for filing charges is limited...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office has submitted to the Basic Court Skopje 1, 12 requests to freeze assets, including the VMRO-DPMNE building, evidence and financial analysis, confirmed the SPO this afternoon for "Meta". Yesterday, the Special Prosecution launched three new cases - "Lawn", "Trajectory" and the "Thaler" case. Special security and precautionary measures were not requested. Regarding the press conference by VMRO-DPMNE and...

A delegation of representatives from the United States Congress visited Macedonia today, and met with the newly elected Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, stated the US Embassy in Macedonia. “The bi-partisan delegation, led by Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, met with Speaker of Parliament Talat Xhaferi, members of Parliament, and Special Prosecutor...

In the last ten years, the ruling party abused the electoral process for lucrative incentives to remain in power, said Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva in an interview with “Deutsche Welle”. “Moral values in Macedonian society are in disarray. We saw this in the way this government ruled in the last ten years, and we heard it publicly and in...

Today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) has submitted a request to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Macedonia to exclude of the president with an explanation that Jovo Vangelovski is part of the “bombs” and that it happened during a period when he was also performing is duties as President of the Supreme Court. In today’s request, SPO said...

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 Article 5 from the Law...

The Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, today published her third six-monthly report regarding SPO’s operations for the period starting from the 15th of September 2016 until 15th of March 2017. In Janeva’s report, it states that even in this period there were obstructions to the SPO’s work and problems in the cooperation with the judiciary and other institutions. The Special...

The Special Public Prosecution will file its new six month report about its operations to the service of the Parliament and the MPs will discuss it whenever they get assembled and will finish the constituting the Parliament, said representatives of SPO for "Meta". Apart from Parliament, according to the law, the SPO has to file its report to the Council...

Today’s hearing from the trial for the violence that occurred in front of the municipality of Centar in June 2013, was postponed again because the former Prime Minister and current party leader of VMRo-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski and the other 13 accused in this case that was launched by SPO didn’t show up. At the hearing, there was a minor conflict...

Every time Zaev panics, SPO is activated, said VMRO-DPMNE after today’s press conference of the Special Prosecutor’s Office during which a new investigation named “trust” was announced. The party said that SDSM’s party leader is scared because he knows that the realization of the platform from Tirana will not pass and that is why the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva...