Tag: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Today, six people received prison sentences from the court in the "Titanic 2" case, conducted by the Special Prosecutor's Office for election irregularities during the 2013 local elections. The longest punishment, four and a half years, was handed to the former member of the State Election Commission, Bedredin Ibraimi. President of the Democratic Party of Albanians, Menduh Thaci was sentenced...

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...

The Special Public Prosecutor's Office gave a positive opinion that the detention of suspects in the "Empire" case could be replaced by house - arrest, Makfax writes, citing its own sources. The limited freedom of suspects rests in the hands of judges from the Appeal and the Criminal Court. Should they decide, the suspects who would be released from custody...

The attack on Parliament on April 27 was commanded by the VMRO-DPMNE paramilitary headquarters. "For a United Macedonia" was formed by VMRO-DPMNE and had fictitious leaders. At the protests organized by "For a United Macedonia" 80% were from VMRO-DPMNE, who provided all the requisites which were used. I have seen all the leaders of the protest at the VMRO-DPMNE...

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...

Today's hearing of the "Titanic 2" case where the accused are the former Director at the Administration for Security and Counter-intelligence (UBK) , Sasho Mijalkov, and the President of DPA, Menduh Tacci, was postponed. If the hearing had taken place, it would have been Mijalkov's first departure from the Skopje prison located in the area of Shuto Orizari, where he...

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,...

Sasho Mijalkov, former director of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) of the Ministry of Interior, is  creator of the idea of massive wiretapping, driven by political and business interests. In order to prove his guilt the SPO has provided  a substantial amount of evidence, but also witnesses who helped in the disclosure of the affair and the...

Former director of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) Sasho Mijalkov, has had his security detail withdrawn, following information released by the Interior Ministry, reports MIA. The decision was made before the public holiday, after an assessment was made that there was no longer a security risk to Mr Mijalkov. After handing in his resignation in May 2015, six bodyguards and two...

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 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 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...