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The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1's Department for Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption has rejected the request by Nikola Gruevski to have his passport returned, announced the court on its website. At the same time, the wiretapped conversations were removed as evidence in three cases with an explanation that they were illegally acquired. Apart from Gruevski, the...

The Special Prosecutor's Office in the indictment for the “Titanic” case are asking the leader of VMRO-DPMNE and former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, the former chief of his cabinet, Martin Protoger, the current MP of VMRO-DPMNE in Parliament, Ilija Dimovski and the accused Leko Ristovski to confiscate assets worth 2.2 million euros. This sum, according to the SPO, corresponds to...

The Appellate Court Skopje upheld the appeal made by the Special Prosecutor's Office regarding the ruling made by Basic Court Skopje 1 for the "Slaps" case, which is related to the violence outside the Municipality of Centar in June, 2013, and ruled that the evidence obtained from the wiretapped material can be used as evidence in the criminal proceedings. "With this...

The Special Public Prosecution is a smokescreen for covering the Government's incompetence and the damaging decisions and agreements for the country, said the regular morning announcement issued by VMRO-DPMNE. "SPO has a task to lead a whole political process with only one intention i.e. to eliminate VMRO in order to weaken the state," said the announcement. This opposition party reminds...

The Criminal Councils of Basic Court Skopje I rejected the request by the Special Prosecutor's Office to remand the former Director of the Administration for Security and Counter Intelligence (UBK), Saso Mijalkov into custody, as unfounded. He is the prime suspect in the cases "Target" and "Fortress”, which the SPO have merged into one case. The request for custody, as...

The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE has issued an appeal to the court not to succumb to threats and pressure that are made regarding the charges that were filed by the Special Public Prosecution against high-ranking party officials and former ministers, among which is VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader and former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski. The party stresses that with the work of the...

The Criminal Court Skopje has announced that it cannot tell how long the procedure will take, when will it end and when will the decisions be announced regarding the requests filed by the Special Public Prosecution for taking into custody and measures of caution against persons against whom charges were filed against yesterday. The Court has announced that due...

Several citizens with their vehicles have blocked the Goce Delcev Boulevard in front of the Criminal Court in Skopje as a protest against the charges that were filed by the Special Public Prosecution. At the court were also filed requests for putting high-ranking VMRO-DPMNE officials into custody, including several ministers, among which is the party leader and former Prime...

VMRO-DPMNE has been attacked as never before in history, and the goal is breaking the party and placing it under control for greater goals by the one who created this process, stated the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski at a press conference after charges were filed by the Special Prosecutor's Office today. “It's about a political process, not a legal one....

Today, the Special Prosecutor's Office filed 17 indictments for 18 cases, against 94 individuals and 7 legal entities, stated the chief Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, adding that solid evidence has been provided for all the cases. She noted that the time-frame for investigations and enquiries was not long enough for all the material to be investigated, especially considering that the...

“The new government has to set its priorities, but if you are asking me, I would say that the first priority should be the improvement of the living standards for all the citizens of this country,” said the Ambassador of Netherlands in Macedonia, Wouter Plomp in a weekly interview for “Radio Free Europe” As priorities, the Ambassador also mentioned...

The past three years of the political crisis has been difficult, exhausting and stressful on Macedonia. The crisis was not just a political crisis, it crossed over into economics, society, morals and ethics. There were a series of protests and counter protests, trials and counter trials, investigations and counter investigations. Then the Pržino Agreement was signed, and then Pržino...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office has submitted to the Basic Court Skopje 1, 12 requests to freeze assets, including the VMRO-DPMNE building, evidence and financial analysis, confirmed the SPO this afternoon for "Meta". Yesterday, the Special Prosecution launched three new cases - "Lawn", "Trajectory" and the "Thaler" case. Special security and precautionary measures were not requested. Regarding the press conference by VMRO-DPMNE and...

SPO’s Public Prosecutor, Lenče Ristoska at tonight’s guest appearance at “Top Tema” TV show, repeated the appeal for extending the deadline for filing charges that SPO has, but stressed that if that doesn’t happen then they have a plan “B.” -We appeal for extending the deadline for filing charges that is expiring on the 30th of June. If that...

The Special Public Prosecution announced a press conference for tomorrow (23rd of March) starting at 11 o’clock. “Transporter carries a total of three hundred tables at Tiffany’s", said SPO’s announcement on Twitter which in accordance with past cases, all key words start with the letter “T.”   https://twitter.com/S_J_O_/status/844597535603933184 On the 28th of February, the Special Public Prosecutor had launched a new investigation, code-named “Trust” a...

When a party loses an election or they don’t win as they wanted to, then they try and find an excuse, and the media and NGOs are the easiest to blame. This way of thinking is not European, said the French ambassador Christian Thimonier in an interview with "Radio Free Europe". When asked about the “Desorosization” process as a way...

The leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, tonight after a three-hour meeting with DUI leader Ali Ahmeti in Mala Recica, stated that they are close to coming to an agreement because at the meeting they focused on the constitutionality of the solutions. “Negotiations are underway. The intensity is increasing. Certain issues have been cleared up and those issues will be passed...

There is no time to lose and it is solely up to Macedonian politicians to decide the future of their country, said the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Wouter Plomp, at today's presentation of the research "Legal and budgetary implications of unjustified detainment" at the EU Info Centre in Skopje . “If you are asking me to comment on recent developments...

VMRO-DPMNE are expecting the next week to officially start negotiations with DUI for the composition of a new government, whether talks will be successful, everyone will know by the expiration of the legal deadline, i.e. January 29, said Antonio Milososki of VMRO-DPMNE in an interview with "Kanal 5" TV. “We do not plan to form a Government at any price,...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office has confiscated documents from the National Archive, regarding one of their preliminary investigations, reported "Telma" TV. The SPO would not comment on what type of documents they were looking for, nor would they comment for what case their preliminary investigation is for. Filip Petrovski, the Director of the National Archive stated that the documents were related to...