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North Macedonia: The Operative Technical Agency last year interposed in 853 cases of communications wiretapping

Last year, the Operative Technical Agency (OTA), for the needs of the adequate bodies in North Macedonia, interposed in 475 new activations of the wiretapping of communications measure and 378 prolongations of this measure, showed OTA's annual report that was submitted for analysis to the Parliament. Out of the total number of newly approved communication surveillance measure with the technical...

The verdict in the “Target – Tvrdina”: Sasho Mijalkov sentenced to 12 years in prison

Sasho Mijalkov, the former Director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), was sentenced in Skopje, North Macedonia, to 12 years in prison in the "Target - Tvrdina" court case, on charges for criminal association, abuse of office and receiving reward for illegal influence. The "Target - Tvrdina" case refers to the illegal wiretapping of 20.000 citizens in the...

Wiretapped conversations about the closure of A1 TV: We have to cancel their licence and let them cry afterward

Two new "bombs" showed up on the Fenix A1 Youtube channel. In the first wiretapped recording, there are conversations where allegedly the voices of the former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, and the former Prosecutor Ljupcho Shvrgovski can be heard. The second "bomb" allegedly features conversations between the former Director of the Public Revenue Office,...

Target-Tvrdina trial: Victims of illegal wiretapping demand millions of euros in compensation

The trial "Target-Tvrdina" about the illegal wiretapping in the period between 2008 and 2015 continued today at the Criminal Court in Skopje. The former UBK's Director Sasho Mijalkov and the former Minister of Interior Gordana Jankuloska, the fugitives Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boshkovski, Toni Jakimovski, but also several employees of the former UBK, have been accused of illegal wiretapping...

A newly leaked audio recording of Mickoski and Kicheec: Sasho provided 5.000 EUR twice for the buses for the rally on the 2nd of June

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 discussing ways of paying the...

Pardoning party debts, court cases and the Law for Public Prosecution in the new leaked conversation between Mickoski and Kicheec (audio)

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, since he has helped him...

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

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 also abroad. The video...

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

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 - Fortress" over the wiretapping. In...

SDSM: Mickoski has confirmed the link between VMRO-DPMNE and the attacks that occurred on the 27th of April

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 the violence that occurred...

New wiretapping scandal in Macedonia

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. Nearly three years ago, the...

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

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 the main prosecutor's office...

Most of OTA budget to be spent on salaries and allowances

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 budget re-balance, which is currently...

The formation of the OTA is still a financial enigma

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 that nobody knows how much...

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

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 the affair and the...

Supreme Court in Athens rules against extradition of Grujevski and Boskovski

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 the Supreme Court in Athens. The...

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

“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 for Safeguards" suggests safeguards designed...

Proprietary switches will not be in telecommunication operators because they are foreign companies

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 groups for drafting the legal...

Parliament will select the Director of the Agency for Monitoring Communications (OTA)

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 public advertisement. The director’s mandate will...

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

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 very advanced stage, and that...

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

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 of Interior, has been appointed...