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US State Department blacklists Nikola Gruevski and Sasho Mijalkov

The US Department of State blacklisted the former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Sasho Mijhalkov, the former Director of UBK (Home Security and Counterintelligence Administration of the Republic of Macedonia), in response to their participation in major corruption processes in the Republic of Macedonia (now Republic of North Macedonia). This effectively bans them from entering the US. In...

АЈМ: European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Focus journalists in the case against Sasho Mijalkov

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of Focus journalists in the case against Sašo Mijalkov, former head of the secret service in Macedonia. The ruling in Strasbourg comes after in 2014 Macedonian domestic courts ruled that Focus newspaper editor Jadranka Kostova and journalist Vlado Apostolov had to pay more than 9,000 euros as damages to...

Sasho Mijalkov sentenced to 8 years in prison in “Trezor” case

The Basic Criminal Court in Skopje, North Macedonia, found guilty the former UBK (Home security and counter-intelligence agency) director Sasho Mijalkov in the "Trezor" (Vault) case and sentenced him to 8 years in prison. The others who were also accused in this case were also found guilty. Former Head of Mijalkov's office, Toni Jakimovski, was sentenced to 5 years for...

Judicial Council of North Macedonia dismisses Judge Sofija Lalichik

The Judicial Council voted yesterday to dismiss Judge Sofija Lalichik from the Criminal Court in Skopje, North Macedonia. The decision was reached with 11 votes in favor of and 2 votes against. The explanation for this motion was that Judge Lalichik showed incompetence and exercised malpractice in her work. Otherwise, Judge Lalichik can be heard in the "bombs" that the...

The verdict in the “Target – Tvrdina”: Sasho Mijalkov sentenced to 12 years in prison

Sasho Mijalkov, the former Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), was sentenced in Skopje, North Macedonia, to 12 years in prison in the "Target - Tvrdina" court case, on charges for criminal association, abuse of office and receiving reward for illegal influence. The "Target - Tvrdina" case refers to the illegal wiretapping of 20.000 citizens in the...

After frantic search, Sasho Mijalkov appears in Prosecutor’s Office to collect his home custody warrant

While the entire Interior Ministry in North Macedonia was engaged in finding Sasho Mijalkov, the former director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence - UBK, accused of illegal wiretapping, and an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Mijalkov appeared in person in front of the Organized Crime Prosecution Office in Skopje. Mijalkov apologized to the Macedonian public for...

Macedonian Interior Ministry issues a national arrest warrant for Sasho Mijalkov

The Interior Ministry (MOI) of North Macedonia informs that a national arrest warrant was issued for Sasho Mijalkov. The reason for that is because: "with all undertaken measures and activities, this person still hasn't been located," said MOI, who have been looking for Mijalkov since yesterday in order to hand him over the decision for house arrest. Since this...

From Domestic “Bombs” to a Russian Salad: Four Year’s Audio Golgotha

The recorded phone conversation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Russian comics Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lexus (Alexei Stolyarov) who pranked the Macedonian Prime Minister introducing themselves as the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, from yesterday (9 July 2019) is the top topic among the public in Macedonia, but also abroad. The video...

Top 5 cases of disinformation on the Special Prosecutor’s Office in 2018

As of its establishing until today, there are numerous false news, manipulations and disinformation related to the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, especially about the three public prosecutors, who led the press conferences where investigations and indictments were announced and reviewed and elaborated by the SPO, who were always the targets of attempts for personal discredit via articles whose purpose...

Mijalkov will remain in detention and his appeal has been rejected

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court I Skopje has rejected the appeal of UBK's former Director, Sasho Mijalkov regarding the detention over the case of "Empire." The judges have assessed that there is a danger that Mijalkov might try to escape and to harass witnesses, and have confirmed the decision of the preliminary proceedings judge, who set...

SPO launch new investigation “Empire”, Mijalkov and Kamchev family main suspects

The Special Prosecutor's Office has launched a new investigation under the code name "Empire", against Jordan Kamchev, Sasho Mijalkov, Nenad Josifovic, Cvetan Pandeseski, Ratka Kunoska Kamcheva, Hristina Kamcheva Stojceska, Zorica Arsovska, Liljana Gajdoska, Vladislav Stajkovic, Todor Mircevski, Dejan Janev, Vance Mijalchev and Jovanche Taskovski. They are suspected of criminal offenses such as criminal association, damage or privilege of creditors,...

The Court decided MIjalkov will not go to trial for the Torture case and SPO announced an appeal

The Criminal Court in Skopje decided that the former Head of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence will not go to a trial for the Torture case, but only the 6 members of the Alpha unit that arrested the party leader of United for Macedonia, Ljube Boshkovski for the case in the Campaign case in 2011. The Council for...

The indictment in the Titanic case accepted, Mijalkov and Tacci are the accused ones

The Council for indictment evaluation at the Basic Court Skopje 1 accepted the SPO's indictment for the Titanic 2 case regarding election rigging. The following people were charged in this case: the former UBK's Head, Sasho Mijalkov, DPA's party leader Menduh Tacci, VMRO-DPMNE's member at SEC, Sasho Srcev, including former members of SEC, Bedredin Ibraimi and Aneta Stefanovska and Vlatko...

The prosecution opens an investigation after Jeremić’s statements that Mijalkov had been laundering money

The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption has initiated a pre-trial procedure due to the existence of indictments for money laundering by senior Macedonian officials, according to a statement given by former Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremić, informs the prosecution. Last week, Jeremić stated that the Czech company "Czechoslovak Group" last year in October, through a Belgrade-based...

The trial in the case of Fortress-Target is scheduled on the 22nd of December

The trial of the SPO's case titled "Fortress-Target" regarding the UBK's illegal massive wiretapping of citizens during the period of 2009 and 2015 is scheduled on the 22nd of December at the Basic Court Skopje 1. This case will be led by judge Lenka Davitkova, and the hearing will start at 10 am. In the cases "Target and "Fortress"...

The Court has accepted the indictments filed by SPO for the Target and Fortress cases

The Criminal court in Skopje has accepted the indictments for the Target and Fortress cases filed by the Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO), confirmed the Court. By their own words, the Council has given a green light for the case to go to trial. The case was already designated to a certain judge, and next Monday, a date for the...

The Court has decided not to give back Mijalkov his passport

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...

Mijalkov is calling on the court’s decision for Zaev, he too wants his passport returned

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...

Gruevski and Mijalkov requested from the court to return their passports regarding business trips

VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski and his cousin Sasho Mijalkov, former Head of the Security and Counterintelligence Service (UBK) have requested from the Criminal Court to return their passports, which were taken away as a guarantee that they would not leave the country due to the charges against them by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office, "Television 24"reported. The information from the...

Mijalkov is withdrawing from all his VMRO-DPMNE party functions

The former director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Saso Mijalkov, today via a statement from the VMRO-DPMNE communication centre, said that he will be withdrawing from his political activities. “In order to complete the ongoing court proceedings, in which I personally believe the truth will be proved, I have made a personal decision to withdraw from all...