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One million Euros in a Louis Vuitton bag – video and audio recordings linked to the case “Racket” released
The Italian newspaper “La Veritá” (The Truth) in its online issue published parts of video footage and audio recordings related to the case “Racket” in North Macedonia, in which Bojan Jovanovski – “Boki 13” and Zoran Milevski – “Kičeec” are suspected of money extortion in order to influence the Special Prosecutor’s Office’s case “Empire”. For a certain amount of...
The blueprint group submitted solutions to the draft-law on Public Prosecution
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 at a meeting with Minister...
Analysis: Brussels ask that Macedonian politicians change their mentality
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 no guarantee that in June...
Zaev: Set aside personal prejudice, for a better SPO
Today, the Prime Minister and President of SDSM Zoran Zaev said that at the meeting of working groups of the ruling coalition and the opposition coalition of VMRO-DPMNE there will be no bargaining over crimes and that he wants to agree on a new law on the SPO, and if it doesn't happen, that the country will continue to...
Sasho Mijalkov sentenced to 3 years in prison, Menduh Tachi sentenced to 3 years and 2 months
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...
With the closure of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, Macedonia’s hope for State of law will be lost
The Supreme Court of Macedonia, as the highest legal instance in the country, with the latest controversial legal opinion seems to have eradicated all hope that the regime of the fugitive Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will face justice. After this decision, to all those thousands of citizens who chanted “No Justice – No Peace" while marching in the "Colorful...
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...
New wiretapping scandal in Macedonia
There has been no stop to the scandals in Macedonia. After the recent escape of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Hungary, which remains unclear, the latest one announced by the public prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski is that in the last two years, the landlines of all prosecutors were monitored, which immediately initiated a pre-investigative procedure.
Nearly three years ago, the...
Gruevski: Authorities continue with political smear campaigns and pressure on the judiciary
Former prime minister and current honorary president of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, after the adjournment of today's hearing for the Trajectory case, which he was late to, again accused those in power of running a political smear campaign against VMRO-DPMNE and putting pressure on the judiciary over cases led by the SPO.
He alluded to the double standards of the court...
Stormy political week: Hahn in Government, Zaev and Gruevski in court, SPO’s mandate expires
Next week, from beginning to end, will be extremely busy with a crowded agenda of events, which are of interest to the public, and the outcome will show how the processes are important for the country, and how they will unfold in the future.
The last week of June, before the official start of the summer holidays, will be fateful...
Kočan’s custody hearing will be held again tomorrow upon the request from the SPO
Tomorrow, the Criminal Court in Skopje will come to a decision regarding the Special Prosecutor’s Office request to remand businessman Sead Kočan into custody, who is the prime suspect in the “Trust” case.
The SPO confirmed that the hearing has been scheduled for tomorrow at 10:00 am, and like the previous hearing, prosecutors from the SPO will be present as...
Kočan has been admitted to the Cardiology Clinic for a suspected heart attack
Businessman Sead Kočan, who has been on the run for two months, was yesterday admitted to the Cardiology Clinic in Skopje due to poor health, reported the media today.
The portal “Prizma”, referring to sources from with in the Cardiology Clinic, wrote that Kočan was admitted in with a pre-heart attack condition and today was implanted with a stent implant.
However,...
SPO at a “working meeting of a higher level” with representatives from “Macedonian Telecom”
Today, prosecutors from the Special Prosecutor’s Office held a “working meeting of a higher level” with representatives from “Macedonian Telecom”, regarding the SPO’s request for a search warrant for the computer systems in their investigation into the mass wiretapping affair.
“At the premises of “Macedonian Telecom”, today we held a working meeting of a higher level with representatives of the...
MOI reveals: Ivanov, Veljanoski, Dimitriev and VIP visitors used the 600.000 euro Mercedes
The armoured Mercedes, purchased in 2012 for 600,000 euros and which the Special Prosecutor’s Office opened the "Tank" case, is now located in the government. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) told “Meta” that it is the "main vehicle for dignitaries of foreign delegations."
“The armoured Mercedes is used as the main vehicle for dignitaries of foreign delegations during their visit...
SPO: Jankuloska was summoned for questioning over the “Titanic” case
Former Interior Minister and senior VMRO-DPMNE official, Gordana Jankuloska, was summoned to the Special Prosecutor's Office as a suspect in the "Titanic" case confirmed the SPO for "Meta".
The SPO said that Jankuloska today requested an examination of the evidence, because, she "will again be called for questioning on the same case to give her statement."
Today the former Interior Minister...
Jankuloska: No one is untouchable, not even NGOs funded by Soros
"No one is untouchable, not even NGOs funded by Soros ... You need to have the same rules and procedures with NGOs, and institutions must be left undisturbed to act and to do work their own work," said former Interior Minister and senior VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Jankuloska in an interview for "Dnevnik".
"Civil society and the functioning of NGOs is...
SDSM: SPO’s mandate will be extended, and Gruevski will have to face justice
Nikola Gruevski will have to come to terms that he will face justice for "all the crimes he has committed against the citizens, he will have to take responsibility", reads the statement by SDSM at today’s press conference by Vladimir Gjorchev from VMRO-DPMNE.
"Justice is part of the ongoing democratic process in Macedonia. Nikola Gruevski will have to accept that he...
SPO withdraws charges for “Putsch” case as it contradicts the evidence
The Special public prosecutor’s office is withdrawing the bill of indictment for the “Putsch” case that indicted SDSM’s leader Zoran Zaev and the former Head of Security and Counter Intelligence Agency, Zoran Verushevski.
As was informed by SPO, the reason for this decision is that the “facts” that were shown in the indictments are in contradiction with the evidence that...
UBK replys to SPO regarding the use of classified information in “Fortress 2” case
The Special Prosecutor’s Office has received a reply from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) upon its request for the use of classified information in the procedure for the “Fortress 2” case, confirmed for “Meta” Katica Janeva’s cabinet.
The SPO hasn’t revealed what UBK said in their reply, but they said that they will inform the court at the...
