22 August 2019
The Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, from a heroine, and whose silhouette embellished the T-shirts of both young and old when Gruevski’s government was torn down, ended infamously disappointingly in detention for abuse of power. The person that was supposed to be (and for awhile was) the face of the fight against the deeply corrupted […]
20 August 2019
The Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, arrived this morning at the Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption where she will be interrogated. She has been called to give a statement on the case “Reket”, in which, suspects for racketeering businessmen are Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 and Zoran Mileski – Kiceec. At the […]
14 August 2019
The public prosecutor of the Special Prosecutors Office Lile Stefanova, after five hours interrogation leaving the Prosecutor’s Office did not reveal details of her statement in front of her colleagues concerning the case “Reket” (“Extortion“). Two persons – Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 and Zoran Mileski – Kiceec – are detained, while the Italian newspaper […]
9 June 2019
“We assure the public that all audio-materials available to this Special Pubic Prosecutors office are kept under strict security measures that envisage physical, administrative and data security of information”, was said in the announcement of the Special Public Prosecutors office due to the doubts that the “bombs” which “El Cheka” published might have derived from […]
8 May 2019
There will be no shift in terms of differences between the government and the opposition in regards to the Law on the Public Prosecution, said today Justice Minister Renata Deskoska after the new round of talks on key issues in judicial reform. “It is unacceptable for the Ministry of Justice to introduce a provision in […]
5 April 2019
Despite Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s claim, who in a TV interview announced that the negotiations about SPO are heading in a good direction after 30 amendments by the opposition were accepted, VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader, doesn’t share his optimism. -At this moment I’m not an optimist, but this process needs to be given a chance because […]
22 March 2019
VMRO-DPMNE has sent their objections to the Ministry of Justice regarding the shortcomings of the draft text on the Law on Public Prosecution, translated into the three principles that contain the documents we believe must be part of this new law, said today VMRO-DPMNE spokesman, Naum Stoilkovski. He added that the new law must be […]
21 March 2019
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 […]
18 March 2019
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 […]
8 March 2019
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 […]
8 March 2019
“The bombs” that were already published and still exist on the Internet, will not be destroyed or sanctioned, said the former Minister of Interior Pavle Trajanov, after the Ministry of Justice announced that with the new law of Public Prosecution, SPO will have to destroy the materials from the illegally wiretapped conversations. A problem are […]
7 March 2019
“The Bombs” that the Special Public Prosecution has will be destroyed, announced yesterday the Ministry of Justice, announcing that the Government has decided SPO’s future by placing it in the draft law on the Public Prosecution. But, what will be the procedure like for destroying the materials from the illegally wiretapped conversations, and what will […]
6 March 2019
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has announced a leaders’ meeting, following requests made by the VMRO-DPMNE in regards to the status and the future of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). The Prime Minister, who together with Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Koco Angjushev visited the “Euro Nikel” plant, formerly called “Feni”, said that at the […]
6 March 2019
At today’s session, the Government adopted a draft law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which regulates the status, autonomy and jurisdiction of the SPecial Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), reports the Ministry of Justice. The bill provides for the SPO to be autonomous, but hierarchically lower-ranking to the state public prosecutor’s office, and to represent itself in […]
5 March 2019
Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani, has met today with the members of the State Commission for Preventing Corruption as part of the institutionalized visits that are connected with the implementations of the reforms from Plan 18. According to Osmani, SCPC is not only an important element in the prevention of crime and […]
4 March 2019
The Supreme Court has decided to call off the house arrest for the suspects in the SPO’s case “Empire” to Orce Kamchev, Cvetan Pandeleski and Nenad Josifovik. The passports belonging to Kamchev, Josifovik, and Pandeleski are held in the Basic Court Skopje 1. The Supreme Court has no authority over their passport. For now, they […]
7 February 2019
The State Public Prosecutor, Ljubomir Joveski announced that Public Prosecution’s expert collegium during its meeting today has decided that the legal opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the SPecial Prosecution’s Office’s cases is violating the legality and it will lodge a request at the Parliament in order to obtain an authentic reading of Article 22 […]
1 February 2019
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 […]
30 January 2019
The Special Prosecutor’s Office shouldn’t have launched new cases after the 18 month-deadline expired, concluded the Supreme Court. At today’s general session, the Supreme Court came to this legal opinion following the initiatives of attorneys Boro Tasevski and Elenko Milanov. “The Public Prosecution for pursuing crimes related or arisen from the content of the illegal wiretapping of […]
3 January 2019
The State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski has said in an interview he gave for the MIA agency that it is essential to be decided who will be supervising the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. -With the government’s Strategy for reforms in the judiciary, it is planned that SPO to become a part of the […]
