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State Audit Office: In the period between 2016 and 2019, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has illegally paid over 46.000 EUR for salary additions
In the period between January 2016 and September 2019, the Special Prosecutor's Office has paid its employees other additions to their salaries in the amount of 282.896.000 MKD or 46.338 EUR, outside of the legal regulations. The amount for the paid additions is surpassing the amount of the salary basis per person, writes the State Audit Office in the...
Macedonian Supreme Court confirms two years prison sentence for former Prime Minister Gruevski who fled to Hungary in 2018
The Macedonian Supreme Court announced today that it rejected the appeals by convicts Nikola Gruevski, Gordana Jankulovska, and Gjoko Popovski for the "Tank" case and has upheld the verdicts of the Appellate Court. This means that the former Prime Minister Gruevski, the former Interior Minister Jankulovska, and her Deputy Popovski will have to go to jail.
"The Supreme Court of...
Three and a half years prison sentence for ex-president of Criminal Court Skopje
The ex-president of the Criminal Court –Skopje, Vladimir Panchevski, was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for abuse of authority. He was charged with personally selecting and delegating court cases to judges of his liking, thereby circumventing the case delegating software ACMIS. The sentence was passed late last night in the Basic Court – Veles.
The prosecution charged...
Special Public Prosecution is officially history, but the fight for justice will not stop, says Prosecutor Fetai
The new Law for Public Prosecution comes to force today in North Macedonia. With that, the Special Public Prosecutor's Office (SPO), that was one of the main goals of the opponents of Nikola Gruevski's rule and was finally acchieved after the protests of the Colourful Revolution, will become history.
This Prosecutor Office was at the center of the public's attention...
How did Special Prosecutor Janeva further undermine the trust in North Macedonia’s institutions
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 and criminalized old government,...
Katica Janeva, arrived for interrogation at the Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption
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 entrance of the Office, Janeva...
After five hours of interrogation, Stefanova didn’t reveal any details of what she said in the Prosecutor’s office
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 “La Verità” publishes audio and...
SPO: The “bombs” of “El Cheka” do not originate from us
“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 SPO.
They add that the...
Deskoska: There will be no shift in terms of differences on the Law on Public Prosecution
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 the law that would imply...
Mickoski doesn’t share Zaev’s optimism about SPO
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 it is of exceptional...
VMRO-DPMNE: New law on the SPO is the basis for building a law-abiding country
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 adopted by a consensus, it...
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...
The published “bombs” will continue to detonate and MoI will have to search for those that are hidden in various private archives
"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 the unpublished "bombs" that are...
The Bombs from SPO’s safety deposit box will be put into a shredding machine
"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 happen to the copies...
Zaev accepts leaders’ meeting over SPO and reform laws
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 leaders' meeting, they would also...
An independent SPO, but under the auspices of the PPO: Government adopts the draft-law
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 first and second instance cases...
Osmani: Anti-corruption Commission and SPO are key for receiving a positive report from the European Commission
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 corruption but one of...
Supreme Court cancels the detentions for Kamchev, Pandelski and Josifovik
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 remain as measures for...
