4 May 2017
The Special Public Prosecution expects a support from the Parliament for extending the deadline for filing charges, as was confirmed by SPO for Meta. “This Public Prosecution has already appealed several times about the need of a change of the deadline for filing charges. Following this, we expect all subjects to see the necessity and […]
10 March 2017
The Criminal Council at the Basic Court Skopje accepted the appeal from the Special Public Prosecution and has decided to detain the businessman Sead Kočan, who is one of the three suspects in the SPO’s “Trust” case, confirmed the court for Meta. The court said that a warrant has been issued for Kočan. The Criminal Council […]
28 February 2017
Every time Zaev panics, SPO is activated, said VMRO-DPMNE after today’s press conference of the Special Prosecutor’s Office during which a new investigation named “trust” was announced. The party said that SDSM’s party leader is scared because he knows that the realization of the platform from Tirana will not pass and that is why the […]
22 February 2017
Today, Judge Tatjana Mihajlova stopped the court hearing on the case regarding the violence outside the municipality Center in June 2013, in which the former Prime Minister and current leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, and another 15 people stand accused, and she fined the two prosecutors from the SPO, Katica Janeva and Fatime Fetai 2,000 […]
14 February 2017
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 […]
21 January 2017
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 […]
18 January 2017
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 […]
9 January 2017
In today’s interview in the daily newspaper “Dnevnik” , the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, spoke at length about the mandate, the work and the future of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). He undoubtedly says that VMRO-DPMNE will not agree to prolonging the deadline for SPO, “that even from afar it can be seen that […]
3 December 2016
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 […]
24 November 2016
On the 4th of November, the Special Public prosecutor had requested from the Basic public prosecutor for organized crime and corruption to be submitted the documentation for the case titled “Sopot,” as was announced today by SPP. “The case was requested in order to decide whether it can be taken under the jurisdiction of the […]
19 November 2016
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 […]
17 November 2016
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 […]
11 November 2016
The Special Public Prosecutor’s office has not commented on statements by European Commissioner Johannes Hahn and the findings of the European Commission’s report on Macedonia’s progress, the area of work of the SPO, as well as statements by MEP Eduard Kukan. On Wednesday, we contacted the SPO but did not receive a comment on the […]
28 October 2016
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 […]
22 October 2016
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 […]
25 August 2016
The Special Prosecutor’s Office are conducting a “political and media circus”, said Silvana Boneva on Monday, a VMRO-DPMNE representative, who sits on the State Election Commission (SEC) while she was leaving the SPO building. Boneva alluded to news crews who were waiting outside the SPO building, that this was her interpretation of why there so […]
12 August 2016
Three investigators from the Special Prosecutor’s Office this morning arrived in the Municipality of Bitola, to inspect the implementation of Mayor Vladimir Taleski’s house arrest, we have learned. The Special Prosecutor’s Office confirmed for “Meta” that their investigators are in fact in the Municipality of Bitola. They say that they are there to see if […]
26 June 2016
The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia are ready for elections, said the leader of the opposition party, Zoran Zaev in an interview with “Radio Free Europe” and added that if the people decide to give him their support, he would “certainly grab the honour” to be next Prime Minister of the country. He says that […]
15 June 2016
The Judge from the preliminary hearing rejected the requests from the Special Public Prosecution for pre-trial detention for Goran Grujovski, and other precautionary measures for four of the other suspects in the “Fortress” case, including former Interior Minister, Gordana Januloska. The Judge, Aleksandra Pop-Stefanova acting upon the requests from the SPO, based her decision, as […]
3 June 2016
The Special Public Prosecution (SPO) have a statement from Kosta Krpač where he informs the SPO about threats he had received, said Lenche Ristovska, spokesperson and prosecutor for the SPO at today’s press conference. She added that the evidence is in their possession and that they will submit all the relevant information they have to […]
