Tag: passport

On January 27, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès launched the new Belgian passport. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,  the new passport is more secure thanks to new security and personalization techniques, while the new original design makes it more recognizable "honoring one of the jewels of Belgian culture: the heroines and...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov ordered the Ministry of Interior and the state agency "National Security" to check all of the Bulgarian personal documents that were issued to foreigners in the last 5 years. According to Bulgarian media, in the last 15 years, almost 90.000 people were granted Bulgarian passports. As Bulgarian media report, Borisov has asked for the...

The Skopje Court of Appeals rejected VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski’s appeal, after he requested that his passport be returned to him, confirmed judge Liljana Ivanovska-Sopova for "Television 24", who conducted the three-member Council of Judges that ruled on the appeal of the public session. Otherwise, Gruevski, who is the prime suspect in the SPO's "Titanic" case, does not have a...

With the confiscated passport of the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, not only the rights of one person are being violated, but the rights of hundreds of thousands of people - members, voters and supporters of the main opposition party in the country are being obstructed as well. This was part of the arguments from Gruevski's lawyers at today's...

The former Head of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence, Sasho Mijalkov who is a prime suspect in the "Target" case, will remain without his passport as the Court has decided to overrule his request for his passport to be returned as unfounded. His passport was taken away as a measure for securing his presence. "The Criminal Council of...

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1's Department for Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption has rejected the request by Nikola Gruevski to have his passport returned, announced the court on its website. At the same time, the wiretapped conversations were removed as evidence in three cases with an explanation that they were illegally acquired. Apart from Gruevski, the...

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 system, such as the case...

The Criminal Council of the Basic court Skopje 1 has rejected the complaint filed by Special Public Prosecution over the decision made by the judge upon a previous procedure not to confiscate the passports belonging to the current Minister of Culture, Elizabeta Kancheska-Mileska and another person that is also a suspect in the case codenamed “Tenders.” Apart from the confiscation...

This is pure political theatre organized by the SDSM and supported by the Special Prosecutor's Office, said the Minister of Culture Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska, while leaving the Criminal Court, after Tuesday's hearing of the "Tenders" case. Kanceska-Milevska spent two hours in court. She stated that she has the same viewpoint of the statement she made last Thursday and at today's hearing,...

Judge Aleksandra Pop-Stefanija denied the request by the Special Public Prosecutor (SPO) for the detention of the prime suspect in the "Fortress" case, Goran Grujovski, Head of the Security and Counter-Intelligence Agency and decided to confiscate his, said this afternoon the Basic Court Skopje 1. Judge Pop-Stefanija today halted the questioning of former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and three other...

The identification of a Parisian suicide bomber has become more complicated for police investigators after Serbian police on Saturday in refugee reception centre in Presevo arrested a migrant with an identical passport with the name, Ahmed Almuhamed, which was found near the terrorists remains at the stadium "Stade de France ". According to Serbian authorities, the name and other information...

In a statement for “24 News”, Mr Mijalkov said " The diplomatic passport, which was, lawfully awarded to me at the discretion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which I have still not collected, let alone actually used, I now intend to give up." Sasho Mijkalov carried on by saying that the SDSM had concentrated their efforts into a black...

The information that Saso Mijalkov was issued a diplomatic passport has opened a completely new serious scandal. This means that institutions run by associates of the Minister entering into a serious abuse of power, according to the SDSM. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikola Popovski had to explain on what grounds the Ministry had allowed Mr Gruevski's cousin, Sasho...

MIA informs the citizens that due to increased interest, the administrative services in all cities will work on Saturday from 8.30 to 16.30, for issuing passports that are already prepared.