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The prosecution appeals decision to suspend “bombs”
The Public Prosecutor's Office, despite the expiry of the deadline, have appealed the decision made by the judge from the previous court proceedings to declare the evidence recordings of intercepted conversations released by the opposition as invalid.
Basic Court Skopje 1 today announced that the Public Prosecutor's Office appealed against "21 decisions from the preliminary procedure where the judge decided...
The court defends its ruling over the oppositions ‘bombs’
After the dilemma, which unfolded in the media and discussed by the experts over whether the judge of the previous procedure was permitted to intervene and declare the oppositions "bombs" invalid as evidence while the case is still in its early stages. The Basic Court Skopje 1 say that the judge's decision is legal at this stage...
New Special Prosecutor appointment in jeopardy before being chosen?
The Agreement of Przino was seriously undermined yesterday by the decision made by Skopje's Court, when they pronounced evidence as invalid, more accurately , the audio recordings of intercepted conversations by SDSM filed in addition to criminal charges against the Prime Minister and several cabinet ministers.
Sources who have been following the whole process closely say, if this actually happens, the...
Does anyone remember the case “Puch”?
Council of Criminal Court has no legally defined deadline for the review of the indictment in the case "Puch" when to enter plea and decide whether to put it in further procedure and schedule a trial or will return it to the prosecution, as requested by the defense.
Although some media on 1st of June, after the session of the...
One month after “Kumanovo”: Facts, contradictions, speculations and silent institutions…
Exactly one month since the bloody conflict between the police and the terrorist group in Kumanovo Divo naselje, in which eight members of the special forces of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) were killed and 37 were wounded, is marked today.
Four weeks ago, Macedonia suffered a collective shock of which is still recovering, due to the seriousness of...
Prosecution is waiting for the autopsy reports on the 18 killed in the action in Kumanovo for 10 days
Prosecutors to prosecute organized crime and corruption, under which jurisdiction is the investigation of the police action in Kumanovo, is still expecting official autopsy reports on the to killed members of the security forces and the terrorist group, according say representatives from prosecution for META.
With the letter in response to our questions, "How many people died during the action?...
MOI doesn’t open “YouTube”
"At the request of the prosecution, we even then reacted to "YouTube" and the footages were removed, and if they are still there, probably somebody posted them again," says Ivo Kotevski, Deputy Minister for Public Relations of the Ministry of Interior (MOI), for META regarding the controversial video footages of the secret meeting between opposition leader Zoran Zaev and...
MOI regarding the bombing of the government: Weapon known, communiqués unimportant
Five days after the bombing of the government building on Ilindenska No. 2, Ivo Kotevski, Deputy Interior Minister, confirmed that the expert teams of MOI determined the type of weapon used, but this he did not want to elaborate on it, as whether it is the same weapon that was used to bomb the building of the Government on...
Scandal about fixing “Skopje Fest” stuck in Prosecution
For the scandal of fixing the telephone voting of Festival "Skopje 2014", which took place in November last year, on which our representative for "Eurovision" song was to be selected, the public prosecutor handling the case would likely request additional six months to finalize it.
The legal limit to when the investigation needs to be completed expires in a month,...
Prosecution to decide whether to file charges for “Puch” in 15 days
The process of investigation of the case "Puch" is over with the last interrogation of suspects yesterday, including opposition leader Zoran Zaev as fourth suspect and former counter-intelligence agent Zoran Verushevski.
According to the legislation, Public Prosecutor now has 15 days to file an indictment.
Zaev interrogated in the Prosecution
This morning, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev is interrogated in the Public Prosecution for organized crime requested the suspicions of a bribe of 200,000 euros, reports "Press24".
According to the criminal charges of the police, the Mayor of Strumica requested this amount from certain Strumica businessman to allow him privatization of construction land.
He was repeatedly summoned for this case, as well...
SDSM filed new charges against Gruevski, Janakieski and Trajanovski
SDSM today filed criminal charges against Nikola Gruevski, Mile Janakieski, Koce Trajanovski and other persons who are directly involved in criminal and corrupt practices in connection with the parcels on Vodno to the Public Prosecution for organized crime and corruption.
The crimes for which the charges were filed are criminal association, money laundering and abuse of official position and authority.
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Two years without Mladenov: He left without telling us why
Two years ago, on 27th of March 2013, in the ditch at the intersection Hipodrom, the body of journalist and owner of the weekly "Fokus" Nikola Mladenov and his car that went off the road on the section Skopje – Veles were found.
The event caused shock and storm among the journalists and the public this electoral spring, which to...
VMRO-DPMNE: Pendarovski to explain how Zaev obtained wiretapped conversations
Stevo Pendarovski should explain how Zoran Zaev has obtained audio recordings of wiretapped conversations, with which foreign service he worked and explain what foreign secret services expect in turn, reads the statement of VMRO-DPMNE after Pendarovski’s statement that he was illegally wiretapped three years before becoming a candidate for President of Macedonia.
"The scenario of SDSM is obvious and they...
Opposition submitted new recordings to the prosecution
Five members of the senior leadership of the opposition submitted materials of their tapped conversations today to the Public Prosecutor on, as it claims, a directive of the Government, and as an extension of the criminal charges for unauthorized wiretapping which SDSM filed several weeks ago.
Professor and candidate for president of SDSM in the last presidential election, Stevo Pendarovski,...
One of the defendants in “Puch” sentenced to three years in prison
Basic Court Skopje 1 today passed a final judgment against Z.K., one of the defendants in the case "Puch", after the draft agreement submitted by the Public Prosecutor for prosecution of organized crime.
"After submitting draft agreement by the Public Prosecutor for prosecution of organized crime and corruption to the criminal court, judge of prior procedure verify the agreement with...
Zaev testified before the prosecution for his criminal charges, he is not yet summoned for “Puch”
The statement of SDSM leader Zoran Zaev in front of the competent public prosecutor in connection with the criminal charges that SDSM filed against the director of the Security and Intelligence Service Sasho Mijalkov, Head of Fifth Administration Goran Gruevski and unknown persons for unauthorized eavesdropping took just over an hour.
- I was summoned as a witness, i.e. damaged...
Prosecution will check how the video leaked, other materials from “Puch” prohibited
Through a statement, Public Prosecution for organized crime and corruption said that, under its authority, it will check the facts and circumstances under which the materials from the meeting between Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski and the leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia Zoran Zaev came to the media. The prosecution asked the...
Zaev’s passport to be taken away?
SDSM leader Zoran Zaev will not be arrested, but, as a measure, his passport would be taken away, are the unofficial information from the Public Prosecution.
In the police action "Puch", SDSM leader Zoran Zaev is also a suspect, who, along with Zoran Verushevski who was arrested two weeks ago and two other persons is charged with attempted endangering the...
Journalists’ associations are shocked by the decision of the prosecution for Kezharovski
The journalists’ associations reacted to the decision of the prosecution to appeal the decision of Basic Court Skopje 1 for the parole of journalist Tomislav Kezharovski.
President of the Union of Journalists Tamara Chausidis said that she is surprised and shocked by this decision.
- They waited for the very last day and on Friday they reacted in an attempt to...
