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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 perimeter they had set-up...

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 will be “shared with the...

"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 Administration of Security and Counterintelligence...

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 most of the data was...

Special Prosecutor Lence Ristoska has stated publicly that tonight, there will be no prosecutors or investigators present in the building of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). She also stated they had summoned the Interior Minister, Oliver Spasovski, and asked him to ensure a smooth operation. “We asked the minister to ensure the safety of employees from the SPO. He...

The Embassy of the Slovak Republic urged state institutions and political parties to adhere to the Pržino Agreement and not to obstruct the work of the Special Prosecutor's Office. "The Slovak Presidency in the EU Council will not comment on statements made by the Interior Ministry nor the Special Prosecutor's Office on this subject. We call on all parties for the...

The Special Public Prosecution has managed to confiscate from UBK all documentation with orders and regulations on special investigative measures for monitoring communications, as well as books with evidence and parts of the records from the computer data systems for wiretapping, announced the SPO this afternoon. The SPO said that more computer data remains to be seized, and that they...

No one should stand in the way of investigations of the Special Public Prosecutor because otherwise there will be no sustainable resolution of the political crisis, said Ambassador of Great Britain to Macedonia Charles Garrett, in his comment on the SPO’s investigation into the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). Garrett, without commenting on specific details of the investigation, stressed...

The Special Public Prosecutor must it be able to conduct a full and independent inquiry, without interference, and the state institutions and political parties need to cooperate, said the US Embassy in Skopje to "Meta" in connection with the SPO’s investigation into the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). They pointed out that by establishing accountability for the illegal wiretapping tapping is one...

Katica Janeva has taken precedence which could jeopardize national security, alleged additional Deputy Interior Minister, Oliver Andonov, the Director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Chavkov, and Viktor Atnasovski, Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), after Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva and prosecutor Lence Ristoska gave a statement just after midnight. at 1:00am. Andonov accused Janeva of...

Today, the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva with her whole team entered the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) and from there, she announced that she would not leave until she and her team have finished their job. “We have entered the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence to finally find out who actually conducted the wiretapping, whether it was the UBK or...

The Special Public Prosecution (SPP) has evidence that the wire tapping equipment was not only used by people working in the Interior Ministry, but “other people” outside the Ministry, said Prosecutor Lence Ristovska from the SPP when asked by the media. Ristovski noted that these "other people" can not be named or even how many people used the equipment because the...

The Special Public Prosecution have filed criminal charges for a new investigation code-named "Fortress" (Tvrdina). Prosecutor Lence Ristovska stated that in this investigation , five officials, and Directors from the Interior Ministry are among the suspected, who abused their official positions of office, when in the first half of 2015, they destroyed all the equipment for unlawful interception of communications. Former...

According to former MP and current NSDP leader Tito Petkovski, activation of the parliamentary Commission for supervision of monitoring communications, and that for control of the work of the Security and Counterintelligence Agency (UBK) and the Intelligence Agency (IA) is "a farce and a theater with which the government simulate a reaction after the remarks of the special report...

EU experts' report notes serious shortcomings in five areas: interception of communications, judiciary and prosecution, external oversight by independent bodies, elections and media, reports "A1on". The report reads that the recordings of wiretapped conversations, according to content, indicate that they are made at the National Intelligence Service. "The content of many of the recordings suggests indications of illegal activity and abuse...

Ljupco Andonovski succeeds the previous head of UBK, Saso Mijalkov and Gorancho Saveski is the new head of the Bureau of Public Security at the Interior Ministry, replacing Chavkov Mitko, who became Interior Minister, says Telma. This is a decision of today's session of the Government of Republic of Macedonia. Election of new Directors is following the resignations of Sasho...

The new directors of the Security and Counterintelligence Agency (UBK) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) will be known on Tuesday, for when a regular session of the Government is scheduled, confirmed government spokesman Aleksandar Gjorgjiev for META. Successors of Sasho Mijalkov and Mitko Chavkov for these two senior positions in the Ministry of Interior are to be appointed at the...

Government session, the first session after the session ten days ago (12th of May, Tuesday), when the resignations of the Ministers of Interior and of Transport and Communications, Gordana Jankuloska and Mile Janakieski, and the Director of the Security and Counter-intelligence Agency Sasho Mijalkov, is to be held today. Government spokesman Aleksandar Gjorgjiev confirmed the information for META. According to our...

"Our requirements as an opposition will be solutions as a Government," said SDSM spokesman Petre Shilegov to the question of META about how they plan to be different and what will the current opposition change in the field of controlling the work of the Security and Counterintelligence Agency (UBK) when it comes to power. Yesterday, opposition leader Zoran Zaev announced...

Mijalkov, MOI and VMRO-DPMNE confirmed that there is millions worth of corruption scandal involving the purchase of equipment for the tapping from Israel, in which are involved the leading government officials, Sasho Mijalkov in the position of director of UBK and Nikola Gruevski in the position of Prime Minister, writes SDSM in its statement. "Director of UBK Sasho Mijalkov, after...