Tag: prosecution

More than 5 months have passed since the tragic bus accident in Bulgaria when 45 Macedonian nationals lost their lives. The Bulgarian prosecution finished the investigation about the causes behind the accident, but North Macedonia's Prosecution is still continuing its investigation, by controlling Besa Trans-Skopje company's complete operations, but also controlling the institutions which should control company's operations, informs...

Prosecutors in North Macedonia have issued orders for post mortem and identification of the bodies of the 14 victims of the blaze the engulfed the COVID-19 modular hospital in Tetovo last night, and an investigation is ongoing whether there are other victims, announced the Basic Public Prosecution - Skopje. "DNA analysis is necessary to establish the identity of some of...

The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office Skopje has dismissed criminal charges against journalist Branko Trickovski, which were filed  by the Interior Ministry, says the Prosecutor’s Office. The criminal charge was for endangerment, followed by incitement of the murder of representatives from the highest state bodies from Article 309 of the Criminal Code, as well as for inciting violence to change the constitutional...

The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption (BPPS-POCC) has announced that a pre-trial investigation has begun, due to suspicion that certain officials abused their official position, enabling Nikola Gruevski to flee Macedonia. The prosecution says the decision to open the case was made "following information regarding the escape of the convicted N.G, as well as articles featured in...

Dozens of unjustifiably detained citizens, instead of spending New Year with their families, spent the new year in cold cells, says the opposition VMRO-DPMNE and reacted to the prolonged detention of the suspects of violence in Parliament on April 27th. The party says the detainees are "victims of political persecution, felt by the Inquisition of the 21st Century on their...

Today, the US Ambassador to the country, Jess Baily, said that the US Embassy is closely following events related to the incident in Parliament which occurred on April 27th, and that the police, prosecution and justice systems must act transparently, while respecting the highest standards in carrying out this process . “The police, the prosecution and the justice system must...

The US Embassy in Macedonia called for greater transparency and monitoring of the procedures to a shed light on what happened during the events in Parliament on April 27th . "We are following the news of the arrests. We urge police and prosecutors to pursue these cases with absolute transparency and the highest respect for due process. While the perpetrators...

The Prosecutor's Office will have to seriously look into the logistics and planning that went into the helping the former chiefs of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boskovski flee the country. They had help from people in Macedonia for their escape from the country, said Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski, in an interview...

Everything about the indictment of the "Monster" case was done according to law and based on evidence, prosecutor Gordana Geskovska told “Meta” News Agency, who represented the prosecution for the murder of five at Smiljkovsko Lake, told. Geshkovska did not want to comment on the request from the Public Prosecutor's Office to annull the verdicts made by the Criminal Court...

Today, the Public Prosecutor, Liljana Spasoska, at today’s public session of the “Monster” case in the Supreme Court asked for the annulment of the verdicts of the Criminal and Appellate Courts and the case be returned for a retrial. The Supreme Court in a public session today reviewed the appeals of the six convicts who were given life sentences imposed...

"I thnk there isn't any need of plenty of evidence, all was clear and it was happening in front of the public. All who dared and entered the Parliament should be held accountable in front of the justice departments if we want to have a legal state" said the president of the Movement for Reforms of DPA (DR-DPA), Zijadin...

The person with the A.P. initials who attacked SDSM's MP, Radmila Šekjerinska at the Parliament during the incidents on the 27th of April, last night was questioned by the Public Prosecution. On the videos recorded during the attacks by the protesters at the Parliament and were spread out on the social media networks, it can be seen that A.P. is...

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,...

The Special Public Prosecution (SPO) has witnesses who can confirm that senior government officials rigged elections, "Meta" has learned. The witnesses are now protected, and only a few prosecutors know their names, to protect their identities. “The SPO has witnesses who can confirm that elections were rigged. They will destroy the myth of the ruling party’s pure victory”, said a...

The Special Public Prosecution today again submitted evidence for the case regarding the falsification of documents in connection with the destruction of the equipment used for wiretapping by UBK to the Basic Court Skopje 1, as yesterday the evidence was returned to them as incomplete. The SPO requested a recusal of the judge because there are circumstances that would cause...

I am not afraid to answer any questions by MPs today because I have the support of the former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, said the Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva while presenting her 6-month progress report of the SPO’s work before the Parliamentary Committee on Political System and Inter-Ethnic Relations. Janeva urged MPs to make changes to the Law on Witness...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office from today will officially continue their investigations into the illegal wiretapping from their new premises on Franklin Roosevelt Street. This morning outside the new SPO building an enhanced police present was noticed, which is not typical for the offices of Metropolitan Theodosius Gologanov Boulevard. In the lobby of the building the rate of people employed by the...

Former Minister of Interior, Gordana Jankuolska spent only 30 minutes at the Special Prosecutor’s Office where she had been summoned for an interview to give a statement. Jankuloska stated that she and her legal team had requested that the interview be postponed, because, as they said, minimum requirements had not been met or “procedural standards”.  As Jankuloska's legal team explained,...

The Public Prosecutor's Office - Prilep has started a preliminary investigation on the case of Macedonians who were defrauded in the USA for cheap airline tickets, confirmed the Prosecution in Prilep for "Meta". "After criminal charges were filed by the damaged parties in the Public Prosecutor's Office – Prilep, two criminal proceedings have been filed in connection with the case....

Prestigious London newspaper for business and economics “The Financial Times” under the title “Small-town graft warrior rattles Macedonia’s elite”, describes the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva as a “whip to Macedonia’s corruption-riddled elite and an unlikely icon of protest in the country’s political crisis”. According to FT  “Ms Janeva’s job is to pursue senior political figures accused of stealing elections...