29 June 2020
A new audio recording was posted today on YouTube from a user name “Racket”, in whichs the voices of VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader Hristijan Mickoski and Zoran Mileski – Kicheec, who is one of the convicts in the Racket case, can be heard. The conversation lasts 23 seconds, and it seems that Mileski and Mickoski are […]
27 June 2020
A new audio recording was posted on YouTube under the user name Racket, in which one can hear the voice of VMRO-DMNE’s party leader Hristijan Mickoski, then Zoran Milevski – Kicheec and woman’s voice. In the conversation between these three parties, a certain person is discussed, for whom Mickoski says he is very grateful to, […]
10 July 2019
The recorded phone conversation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Russian comics Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lexus (Alexei Stolyarov) who pranked the Macedonian Prime Minister introducing themselves as the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, from yesterday (9 July 2019) is the top topic among the public in Macedonia, but […]
20 December 2018
Whistle-blowers Gorgi Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski, who revealed the wiretapping affair by the previous regime, are returning to their positions in the Ministry of Interior today. Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski announced it on his Facebook profile, where he also published a photo of the meeting. Lazarevski is a witness in the SPO’s case “Target […]
10 December 2018
For SDSM, the request on part of Hristijan Mickoski is unacceptable that an independent body should be formed in order to go through the recordings between the judges and the prosecutors in the last two years. “Mickoski has confirmed the testimonies about a serious connectedness between the attackers with VMRO-DPMNE through organization and coordination of […]
10 December 2018
There has been no stop to the scandals in Macedonia. After the recent escape of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Hungary, which remains unclear, the latest one announced by the public prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski is that in the last two years, the landlines of all prosecutors were monitored, which immediately initiated a pre-investigative procedure. […]
30 November 2018
The government has strongly condemned the case regarding the recorded telephone conversations in the Public Prosecutor’s Office. We believe that such phenomena are a relapse of the past and the practice of past ruling non-democratic structures, government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski said, reacting to today’s information from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, that in the building where […]
2 November 2018
From the beginning of the month, the Operational-Technical Agency (OTA), which will function as an independent state body, will oversee the monitoring of communications by the competent state bodies, i.e. it will provide technical link between operators and the authorized bodies, without the possibility of activating or conducting the recording of the communications received. With the […]
7 September 2018
In regards to the question of how much will it cost for the establishment of the Operational-Technical Agency (OTA), the new body that will manage the wiretapping equipment in the country, the relevant institutions have kicked the ball into another court. Today, Parliament voted for Zoran Angelovski as director of the OTA, but it seems […]
1 September 2018
Sasho Mijalkov, former director of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) of the Ministry of Interior, is creator of the idea of massive wiretapping, driven by political and business interests. In order to prove his guilt the SPO has provided a substantial amount of evidence, but also witnesses who helped in the disclosure of […]
18 May 2018
Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskovski will not be extradited to Macedonia to be tried for decades of illegal wiretapping. The Supreme Court in Athens ruled that the two should not be handed over to the country because there are no conditions for a fair trial. Earlier, the Thessaloniki court came to a different decision than […]
25 April 2018
“Privacy International”, an international network of 40 non-governmental organizations, in its new report has identified alarming weaknesses in the oversight arrangements that are supposed to govern the sharing of intelligence between state intelligence agencies. The investigation carried out by organizations, translated into the report “Secret Global Surveillance Networks: Intelligence Sharing between Governments and the Need […]
27 December 2017
The Law on the Establishment of the New Operational-Technical Agency (OTA) and the new Law on the Interception of Communications, which were established at a government session yesterday, are expected to enter the parliamentary procedure for their adoption by the New Year holidays, said the Ministry of Interior. The opposition also participated in the working […]
26 November 2017
The new Operational-Technical Agency (OTA) where the monitoring of communications will be monitored, is going to be managed by a director who Parliament will elect and can dismiss, reads the draft law on the new agency which is due to be put before MPs. The director, as specified in the law, will be selected through a […]
25 November 2017
Secret surveillance will be done directly under the control of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, far from politicians’ hands, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to reporters after signing the first resolutions to support young farmers at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. Zaev stressed that the reforms in the security services are at a […]
1 November 2017
At today’s 34th session, the Government adopted a decision to establish a working group to monitor the implementation of the plan for the realization of the recommendations from a group of senior experts on systemic rule-of-law issues, related to monitoring communications, from 2015, stated the Government’s press service. Siljan Avramovski, a representative from the Ministry […]
22 October 2017
The monitoring of communications in the Ministry of Interior is carried out in accordance with the legal procedures – with a court order through the Public Prosecutor’s Office, said the Ministry of Interior to “Nova TV” regarding the accusations made by the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, during an interview on ” Alpha” television that […]
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 […]
12 October 2017
The Government is proposing and is not instructing the Constitutional Court to stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 175 of the Law on Electronic Communications, which enables the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) to wiretap directly through telecommunications operators, explains government spokesman , Mile Bosnjakovski. According to him, such a proposal […]
11 October 2017
At its 31st session, the Government submitted a proposal for the Constitutional Court to adopt a decision to stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 175, the Law on Electronic Telecommunications, adopted on 21st June, 2017. “According to this opinion adopted by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, the Law on the […]
