28 July 2020
The offices of the State Election Commission (SEC) of North Macedonia were raided by the Basic Public Prosecution for Organized Crime, which investigates whether there was a felony during the tendering procedure for the acquisition of this institution’s software. During the raid, the tender documentation was seized which will help to determine whether the legal […]
30 June 2020
The new Law for Public Prosecution comes to force today in North Macedonia. With that, the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), that was one of the main goals of the opponents of Nikola Gruevski’s rule and was finally acchieved after the protests of the Colourful Revolution, will become history. This Prosecutor Office was at the […]
27 June 2020
A new audio recording was posted on YouTube under the user name Racket, in which one can hear the voice of VMRO-DMNE’s party leader Hristijan Mickoski, then Zoran Milevski – Kicheec and woman’s voice. In the conversation between these three parties, a certain person is discussed, for whom Mickoski says he is very grateful to, […]
11 June 2019
The Department of the Suppression of Organized and Serious Crime of the Ministry of the Interior, on the order of the relevant public prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, in coordination with the Italian prosecutor’s office in Milano, and with the support of “Eurojust”, has conducted a coordinated police operation […]
22 May 2019
The Blueprint Group for Judicial Reform, as the informal network of prominent civil society organizations, today submitted a document to the Minister of Justice with proposed amendments to Articles 32, 34 and 105 of the Draft Law for the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The group informs that their proposals and comments on the law were agreed […]
21 March 2019
At the end of the visit to Brussels, it seems as if the Macedonian delegation was hit by a cold shower. After receiving praise for the Government’s commitment to reform, expressed at the end of the fifteenth meeting of the Stabilization and Association Council (SA) between the country and the European Union, there is still […]
6 March 2019
At today’s session, the Government adopted a draft law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which regulates the status, autonomy and jurisdiction of the SPecial Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), reports the Ministry of Justice. The bill provides for the SPO to be autonomous, but hierarchically lower-ranking to the state public prosecutor’s office, and to represent itself in […]
1 February 2019
Writing about the request of the Macedonian prosecution about the security footage of the ex-Prime Minister Gruevski’s escape through the Albanian border, Albanian news site “BalkanWeb” in an article titled “Albania sends footage of Gruevski’s escape“, claims that the footage has already been downloaded from the system and, in accordance with the request from the Macedonian authorities, shall […]
18 January 2019
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has stated that fugitive Nikola Vojminovski, who was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for the attempted murder of Zijadin Sela during the violence in the Parliament on April 27, 2017, was given house arrest due to health reasons Vojminovski was under house arrest and was awaiting sentencing. A warrant has […]
3 January 2019
The State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski has said in an interview he gave for the MIA agency that it is essential to be decided who will be supervising the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. -With the government’s Strategy for reforms in the judiciary, it is planned that SPO to become a part of the […]
27 December 2018
The Public Prosecution announced that it has received 66 amnesty requests that were lodged in accordance with the Law on amnesty on part of the Basic Court Skopje I. “The Basic Public Prosecution (OJO) for pursuing organized crime and corruption has received 29 requests out of which 12 received a positive outcome. The Basic Public […]
30 October 2018
The Skopje Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a case against President Gjorge Ivanov, regarding two criminal charges related to the non-signing of the Law on Languages and the Prespa Agreement. The case is in the pre-trial procedure and actions are being taken to check the allegations in the application. Data and information from the Parliament […]
29 March 2018
A new documentary by “Television 24”, looks into the what happened in the period from December 2016 – May 2017, when the VMRO-DPMNE government undertook various action to pressurize 23 civil society organizations, through extraordinary inspections conducted by the Public Revenue Office (PRO) and investigations carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of […]
30 December 2017
SPO’s public prosecutor, Fatime Fetai in an interview for the “360 Degrees” TV Show on Alsat M, said that the “unfortunate Artice 22” from the Law on the SPO is limiting this prosecution currently from pressing new charges, but formally it doesn’t limit it to start new investigations. She announced that it is possible that […]
28 November 2017
Early this morning, Mitko Chavkov, former director of the Public Security Bureau at the Ministry of Interior, was taken into custody after the Public Prosecution issued a warrant, “Meta” learned from sources within the investigation. His detainment is within the framework of the investigation into the violence that occurred on April 27th, this year, in […]
14 November 2017
The Ministry of Justice has begun preparing a package of amendments in several laws that should provide external independent control over the work of the police. According to the announcement published today, the amendments will be made in the Laws for the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Public Prosecution, the Council of Public Prosecutors and the […]
1 November 2017
With the statement that the prosecution allegedly conducted a criminal investigation into two members of government, Zoran Zaev confirmed that there is a direct link between SDSM and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is used as a mechanism for disciplining, threatening and blackmailing, says VMRO-DPMNE. The opposition party says that the proceedings in the prosecution […]
22 October 2017
The monitoring of communications in the Ministry of Interior is carried out in accordance with the legal procedures – with a court order through the Public Prosecutor’s Office, said the Ministry of Interior to “Nova TV” regarding the accusations made by the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, during an interview on ” Alpha” television that […]
17 October 2017
Five people have been arrested on the orders of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the attempted murder of MP and the leader of the Alliance for Albanians, Zijadin Sela, during the violence that occurred in Parliament on April 27th, this year. The Prosecutor’s Office informs that, an order was issued to extend […]
27 September 2017
The government will set up an inter-ministerial working group that will need to prepare a solution to reform the system for the interception of communications, based on the recommendations by the Reinhard Priebe expert group, which will provide protection of citizens’ rights and protection against abuse of wiretapping. The need for forming this working group […]
