Tag: SPO

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 of the Law on...

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...

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 communications may file a lawsuit or a...

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 prosecution system. I personally...

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...

16 civic organizations have asked from the President of the Parliament and the MPs who proposed the law, to urgently withdraw the Proposal of a Law Amending the Criminal Code from the agenda, in summary proceeding. They state that by changing the articles of the Criminal Code it will allow the cases that are led by SPO to give...

The Ministry of Justice has announced a draft law on the Special Prosecutor's Office which changes the competencies for crimes that may be the subject of this institution in relation to the current legal solution. So far, the Special Prosecutor has been authorized and is competent to investigate and prosecute crimes related to the content of the unauthorized interception of...

I wasn't planning to run away nor i will be running away, said the former Minister Mile Janakieski at the Appellate court in Skopje where a public session occurred about the detention that was determined by the court on part of SPO. He stressed that he has been reporting at the court in the last year and four months...

On Monday, at the Appellate Court, two public sessions will take place regarding the detentions of the former Minister for Transportation and vrski, Mile Janakieski and the former General Secretary, Kiril Božinovski. Janakievski is accused in several cases led by the Special Prosecutor's Office, and Božinovski, as a former General Secretary at VMRO-DPMNE, is accused in the...

The Special Prosecutor's Office has announced that it has filed two charges in connection with the "Thaler" case, one for the illegal financing of the political party VMRO-DPMNE, and the other for the illegal construction of the party's headquarters. The indictment for the illegal financing of the political party VMRO-DPMNE was filed against the former leader of the party, and...

Coincidence or not, the Government decided to change three key laws in the area of ​​criminal prosecution, exactly on November 13th, the same day former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced that he had fled to Hungary, where he is seeking political asylum. The Ministry of Justice announced on the very same day that it is preparing a draft law for...

The SPO had requested that former officials from VMRO-DPMNE and the accused in the Titanic case, Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski be detained because they were deemed flight risks. The criminal court accepted the proposal from the SPO and ordered a 30-day detention of two people. "The Criminal Council of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption at the Basic...

The Basic Court has requested the Ministry of Interior issue an arrest warrant for former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, after searching for him for several days to serve him the issued decision for going to prison. The Ministry of Interior stated that they "acted upon the order", which should mean that they had issued an arrest order. "We inform you that the...

The Criminal Council from the Basic Court Skopje 1 has rejected the appeal of the convicted former prime minister and honorary president of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski. He had appealed the ruling and two-year prison sentence, in the SPO's "Tank" case and is now set to serve his sentence in Shuto Orizari prison. "After receiving several questions from the media, we would...

The Special Prosecutor's Office has launched a new investigation under the code name "Empire", against Jordan Kamchev, Sasho Mijalkov, Nenad Josifovic, Cvetan Pandeseski, Ratka Kunoska Kamcheva, Hristina Kamcheva Stojceska, Zorica Arsovska, Liljana Gajdoska, Vladislav Stajkovic, Todor Mircevski, Dejan Janev, Vance Mijalchev and Jovanche Taskovski. They are suspected of criminal offenses such as criminal association, damage or privilege of creditors,...

With 5 votes "for" the Committee on rules of procedure, mandate and immunity affairs, decided to propose the Parliament to abolish the MP mandate to Nikola Gruevski. The decision should be decided by the Parliament at a plenary session with a two-third majority. Gruevski didn't appear at the session even though the Committee's president, Pavle Bogoevski said that he...

A group of citizens and sympathizers of former Prime Minister and President of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Gruevski with the use of social networks are organizing a peaceful protest to seek justice. On Facebook, the protest is announced for tomorrow, Wednesday, starting at 19h in front of the Basic Court Skopje 1. On their facebook page, it says that "whole of Macedonia...

The Criminal court rejected the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's plea for postponement of the jail sentence to two years for the SPO's case named "Tank". Gruevski's attorney's requested that he doesn't go to jail on the 8th of November because of his obligations as an MP and the obligations that have come out from the writing of his...

At the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) , a pre-trial judge from the Basic Court Skopje 1 ordered a temporary measure for freezing the assets of the political party VMRO-DPMNE, SPO announced today. With the measure, which was pronounced in the frame of the "Thaler" case, a total of 69 real estate properties were frozen, including the building...

The prison sentence is political persecution, said former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski after the announcement of the decision by the Appellate Court to uphold the two-year prison sentence for the SPO's "Tank" case (the purchase of Mercedes of 600,000 euros). "This is classic political persecution. I will use all legal avenues available to me. There is no need for new...