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 […]
13 August 2019
The Basic Public Prosecutors Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption announced that it ended its investigation that started in March this year and filed an indictment for four employees of the Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), i.e the Secret Police. According to the prosecutors, the four persons in the period of 25th […]
20 February 2019
On the orders of the Government, starting a few days ago, all state institutions have started to use the new name of the country – the Republic of North Macedonia, in their work and in various documents. Now, from Ilindenska number 2 a new task – to create new seals in accordance with the Law […]
20 February 2019
At yesterday’s session, the government determined a new text of the Draft Law on the National Security Agency, which will enable the reform of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (ASC). Under the new law, ASC (in Macedonian: Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање – УБК) will no longer be part of the Ministry of Interior, […]
18 January 2019
Seven civil society organization have demanded resignations of the Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski, the Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Goran Nikolovski and the Director of the Intelligence Agency (IA) Zoran Ivanov. The NGOs stated that these officials have to bear political responsibility for Nikola Gruevski’s escape. “We think that the […]
14 January 2019
With the announced reform of the security-intelligence system in Macedonia, a big part of the authorizations that the Minister of Interior (currently that is Oliver Spasovski) has had will be handed over to the Director of the newly formed Agency for internal intelligence which founding has contributed to the abolishing the Administration for Security and […]
16 November 2018
President Gjorge Ivanov today denied more allegations and assertions from the official document released by the UBK (Administration for Security and Counter Intelligence) regarding the detention ruling for Kiril Bozinovski, and in the case of Mile Janakieski. The president’s office says they are “appalled” and that there was no meeting, nor was there a request for one with […]
9 November 2017
The system for monitoring communications should be dislocated from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), in order to cancel the monopoly that the Administration has at the moment over this process, said the Head of UBK, Goran Nikolovski. -Current analysis and research show that it is necessary to remove the propitiatory switches from UBK […]
21 October 2017
The termination of article 175 of the Law for electronic communications on part of the Constitutional Court in this moment will lead to a vacuum situation where the possibility of any kind of legal monitoring of communications will be denied, a kind of monitoring that would be within the framework of protection of Macedonia’s constitutional […]
1 October 2017
I can strongly confirm that there is no longer illegal wiretaping and we can have expert controls, parliamentary controls at any time. We are at our disposal and we are open to make such controls based on legal regulations, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, in Sunday’s interview with Radio Free […]
31 August 2017
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), has never conducted any sort of activities against any country or against any embassy in Macedonia. This was announced today, by the Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, while answering a reporter’s questions about the recent withdrawal of staff from the Serbian embassy in Skopje and accusations from Belgrade […]
18 July 2017
The Skopje Appellate Court upheld the appeal of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for some of the defendants in the “Target” and the “Fortress” cases and ordered the former Head of the Administration of Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK), Goran Grujovski, the former Chief of Staff of Sasho Mijalkov’s cabinet at UBK, Toni Jakimovski and Nikola Boshkovski, […]
16 June 2017
At the session held this afternoon, the Government came to the decision that Parliament must submit a proposal for the dismissal of the Attorney General of the Republic of Macedonia, Marko Zvrlevski, and they appointed new directors of the Public Security Bureau (BJB) and the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), or to be more […]
13 June 2017
Today, the new Government should be holding a session, and according to recent announcements, the agenda will be the dismissal of the current Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Vladimir Atanasovski, and the current Director of the Public Security Bureau (BJB), Mitko Chavkov. After their dismissal, the Government is expected to appoint […]
17 January 2017
The Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) has refused to declassify classified information the Special Prosecutor’s Office proposed as evidence in the “Fortress 2” trial. The court told the SPO to request the declassification of information they had proposed to the court as evidence, but UBK have stated that any declassification of information would have […]
13 January 2017
The Special Prosecutor’s Office has received a reply from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) upon its request for the use of classified information in the procedure for the “Fortress 2” case, confirmed for “Meta” Katica Janeva’s cabinet. The SPO hasn’t revealed what UBK said in their reply, but they said that they will […]
3 November 2016
Former Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence, and a current member of the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE, Saso Mijalkov, after undergoing questioning for nearly two-hours left the Criminal Court today. He left the courthouse from the same side entrance he used to enter, and after a few minutes, special police forces unblocked 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 […]
23 October 2016
“Ericsson” is not the owner, nor is the operator of the equipment for lawful interception of communications, said a statement today, sent by the Swedish company. The company confirmed that on October 19, they received a request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), for technical assistance in an investigation the SPO had been conducting against the […]
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 […]
