8 November 2019
The Basic Criminal Court Skopje rejected the appeals by Bojan Jovanovski, Katica Janeva and Zoran Milevski – Kicheec for the charges filed against them in the case of Racket, and has completely accepted the charges, which means that the trial will commence soon. The Council for evaluation of the criminal act at the Basic Criminal […]
10 October 2019
Zoran Verushevski, the former Head of the Agency for Security and Counter-Intelligence and a current Security advisor to Zoran Zaev, when asked by the prosecution regarding the illegal wiretapping at the UBK, he said today that Nikola Gruevski should be the prime suspect in this case. According to Verushevski, Gruevski has owned and still owns […]
21 February 2019
In the latest development in the case against the participants in the violence in Parliament on April 27, 2017, yesterday the former Minister of Transport and Communications and former high-ranking official of VMRO-DPMNE, Mile Janakieski, former Minister of Labor and Social Policy and Education, Spiro Ristovski, were taken into custody yesterday, while former Parliament Speaker […]
28 December 2018
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 […]
5 July 2018
The seven defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 years and 6 months to 13 years and 6 months, in total 81 years and 6 months, for crimes such as attempted murder of MP Zijadin Sela which took place on 27th of April, last year, inciting bloody violence in Parliament, the Skopje Basic […]
18 January 2018
NATO’s General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg arrived at the meeting with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with the Mercedes that is worth 600.000 euros and for which acquisition at the end of this month the former Prime Minister and leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski and the former Minister of Interior, Gordana Jankuloska will go to a trial. […]
2 December 2017
The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) greeted the Supreme Court’s decision for a retrial of the Monster case and ordering the defendants to be released pending trial. “The Prosecution’s request including the decision of the judges are all just and in accordance with our expectations and those of the citizens. Even from the start of […]
23 November 2017
The trial of the SPO’s case titled “Fortress-Target” regarding the UBK’s illegal massive wiretapping of citizens during the period of 2009 and 2015 is scheduled on the 22nd of December at the Basic Court Skopje 1. This case will be led by judge Lenka Davitkova, and the hearing will start at 10 am. In the […]
18 November 2017
Next week, Macedonian politicians, as well as the courts, will have a packed agenda. EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn is expected to visit a government delegation in Serbia and a joint session of the governments of Macedonia and Bulgaria. In Skopje’s Criminal Court, hearings on the cases “Bribe”, “Slaps”, “Trust”, […]
24 October 2017
The trial against former intelligence officers, Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski, which was meant to take place today in a Thessaloniki court, was postponed until December 1st, reported “Televizija 24”. The hearing was postponed because the court did not have a translator. Macedonian authorities issued international warrants for Grujovski and Boskovski, following the indictment by […]
28 November 2016
Instead of the beginning of the trial of the former head of the Fifth Administration, Goran Grujovski and six of his fellow defendants in the case “Fortress 2”, today’s hearing turned out to be a procedural dispute between prosecutors from the SPO, the court and the defense, on whether classified evidence should be used in […]
31 May 2016
The “Divo Naselje” trial which stems from the events of the 9th and 10th of May last year, was postponed again today after court police from the Supreme Court did not allow journalists or lawyers to enter the courthouse where the hearing was meant to take place. The Supreme Court did not have a specific […]
9 February 2016
We are convinced that the attack on the checkpoint watchtower in Gosince and the events which took place Divo Naselje, happened because someone wanted to defocus the public from the intercepted audio communications, said lawyer of the accused Naser Raufi, after today’s debate on the main events in Kumanovo and May 9-10th last year. In […]
7 December 2015
Today, the Supreme Court began its public session on assessing the indictment for the events surrounding Divo Naselje. Behind the courthouse, several armored police personnel carriers, the “Hermelin” surrounded the area for safety reasons. Police officers with assault rifles were as far as the Goce Delchev Bridge, and on every entry and exit point at the […]
