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From Domestic “Bombs” to a Russian Salad: Four Year’s Audio Golgotha

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 […]

“Whistle-blowers” Lazarevski and Kostovski return to the Ministry of Interior

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 […]

New wiretapping scandal in Macedonia

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. […]

Government to determine who is responsible for the two-year wiretapping of the PPO

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 […]

Most of OTA budget to be spent on salaries and allowances

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 […]

The formation of the OTA is still a financial enigma

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 […]

Ristovska: Mijalkov orchestrator of wiretapping, we have evidence and witnesses

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 […]

Supreme Court in Athens rules against extradition of Grujevski and Boskovski

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 […]

Privacy International: The oversight of secret global intelligence networks is insufficient

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 […]

Zaev: Secret surveillance will be under complete control of the Public Prosecution

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 […]

A working group has been formed for the reforms for the monitoring of communications

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 […]

Wiretapping is being carried out legally with court orders, say the MOI

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 […]

The government says there will be no illegal wiretapping during the current mandate

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 […]

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