Tag: Special Public Prosecution

Tomorrow marks exactly one year after the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) has taken over the cases related to the illegal wiretapping from the Public Prosecution. According to the Law on the SPO, the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva and her team have six months left to investigate and file charges relating to cases arising from the "bombs". According to Article...

Members of the European Parliament, Ivo Vajgl, Knut Fleckenstein and Eduard Kukan, after today’s meetings in Skopje with political parties, NGOs and the Special Prosecutor's Office, expressed satisfaction regarding preparations for the organization of the elections which are scheduled for the 11th of December, as well as the atmosphere. "The meetings with the parties have shown that they are ready...

Today the Criminal Council of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the Basic Court Skopje 1, dismissed the appeal from the Special Prosecutor’s Office and upheld the ruling brought by Judge Elena Josifovic, not to confiscate the passports of former Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Saso Mijalkov, the former head of his cabinet, Toni...

What will happen to the indictment in the "Putsch" case with the opening of the new investigation by the Special Prosecutor’s Office? Will it be withdrawn, extended with new suspects, or will the people sitting in the dock as suspects, be replaced with the suspects in the "Target" case? This will become clear when the judicial process officially begins....

Codename "Target" of the latest investigation of the Special Prosecutor's Office  (SPO), accidental or prophetic, in January last year was mentioned by the current leader of VMRO-DPMNE and the former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, in regards to the illegal wiretapping. In the speech Gruevski made on February 25, 2015, a month after the MOI announced the public case "Putsch" and filed...

Although the issue was raised today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) did not say whether in the past seven years (from 2008 to the end of 2015) ambassadors and diplomats in the country were tapped, as well as the Commander in Chief, Gjorge Ivanov. They did confirm that politicians, journalists and businessmen had been tapped. Prosecutor Lence Ristoska, although would...

Even though the largest Criminal Court in the country, Basic Court Skopje 1, is turning into a circus and the European Commission’s report on Macedonia's progress noted serious shortcomings in the judicial system and not to mention the obstruction of the Special Public Prosecution’s work, the most responsible person for the judicial system in the country, the Minister of...

Rapporteurs for Macedonia, who have now added Knut Flekenshtajn to their composition, who is replacing Richard Howitt, are closely follow developments in the country leading to the elections and so far there has been no development of other scenarios, reported Eduard Kukan to "Meta" who is also a rapporteur for Macedonia at the European Parliament . “The Special Prosecutor's Office...

“I will answer all questions during the court proceedings, which will be public and transparent for the national and international public, and I urge you all to follow the case”. This was a statement made by the former Prime minister and current leader of the VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski on January 31st, last year. The same day the Ministry Of...

With the assistance from the outside expert from the Swedish company “Ericsson”, today, from the auxiliary servers from the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), the Special Public Prosecution confiscated all the data required by the court order. This afternoon, the SPO announced that as soon as the confiscated data is further analyzed, the findings will be “shared with the...

Next month, in the Criminal Court, several cases which have attracted public attention nation wide, are scheduled for hearings and trials, including the “Putsch” case, the events which took place in the Municipality of the Centre in 2013, “Divo Naselje” and many more. Almost all court cases have a direct or indirect connection with the wiretapped recordings, protests and the...

"Ericsson" is not the owner, nor is the operator of the equipment for lawful interception of communications, said a statement today,  sent by the Swedish company. The company confirmed that on October 19, they received a request from the Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO), for technical assistance in an investigation the SPO had been conducting against the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence...

The Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Vladimir Atanasovski, today informed the Special Public Prosecutor's Office that investigators from the SPO will not be allowed to be physically present on UBK premises until the outside expert arrives, who will be assisting in the extraction of the data from the wiretapping systems. "After most of the data was...

The Special Public Prosecution has managed to confiscate from UBK all documentation with orders and regulations on special investigative measures for monitoring communications, as well as books with evidence and parts of the records from the computer data systems for wiretapping, announced the SPO this afternoon. The SPO said that more computer data remains to be seized, and that they...

The Criminal Court in Skopje has received the proposal the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) submitted, and requests that two of the suspects in the "Tenders" case have their passports confiscated and report to the court every Tuesday, the court told "Meta". The SPO application has already been distributed to the judge for the preliminary procedure, which, as the court...

The international community, who brokered the Pržino Agreement, after the SPO encountered obstructions in their investigation into the UBK (Administration of Security and Counterintelligence), they stated that Katica Janeva must have the support of all the institutions while carrying out full and independent investigations. The guarantors of the Pržino Agreement had various reactions to yesterday's events, and reminded all parties involved, that resolving...

The European Union encourages all institutions in the country to act within the obligations of the Pržino Agreement and to support the work of the Special Public Prosecutor without interference, said to "Meta" the spokeswoman for the European Commission Maja Kocijancic, concerning the obstructions to the SPO’s investigation made by the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence. She emphasized the importance...

The EU Delegation to Macedonia urged all parties to adhere to the agreement and not to obstruct the work of the Special Prosecutor's Office. "We can not comment on ongoing investigations, but we remind that all parties committed themselves to support the work of the SPO", said the EU Delegation in Skopje to “Meta”, when asked for their comment on...

No one should stand in the way of investigations of the Special Public Prosecutor because otherwise there will be no sustainable resolution of the political crisis, said Ambassador of Great Britain to Macedonia Charles Garrett, in his comment on the SPO’s investigation into the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). Garrett, without commenting on specific details of the investigation, stressed...

The Special Public Prosecutor must it be able to conduct a full and independent inquiry, without interference, and the state institutions and political parties need to cooperate, said the US Embassy in Skopje to "Meta" in connection with the SPO’s investigation into the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). They pointed out that by establishing accountability for the illegal wiretapping tapping is one...