Tag: wiretapping

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 hundreds of members of...

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 order and fight against...

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 to the Constitutional Court is...

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 Interception of Communications may be...

The Government is asking that the Constitutional Court stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 175 which is the Law on Electronic Communications because it is already working on security system reforms, and this "initiative is partial and does not approach this topic comprehensively, and it meets a process that is already in process ". The announcement adds...

I can not say when the negotiations on Macedonia's membership in the European Union will start, because the EU is more complex than the Balkans, said Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Jean Asselborn, after meeting with his Macedonian counterpart, Nikola Dimitrov, at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Asselborn explained that the European Commission can propose the start of negotiations with Macedonia,...

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 Europe. He also rejects allegations...

The Criminal Council of the Basic Court Skopje 1's Department for Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption has rejected the request by Nikola Gruevski to have his passport returned, announced the court on its website. At the same time, the wiretapped conversations were removed as evidence in three cases with an explanation that they were illegally acquired. Apart from Gruevski, the...

The European Commission has called upon the authorities in Skopje and Belgrade to exercise restraint and to solve the issue with the withdrawal of the personnel of the Serbian Embassy in Skopje in a calm manner. The spokesperson of the European Commission said that the diplomatic incident is a bilateral issue for both countries that the European Union is...

The Government does not intend, nor did it give orders to carry out intelligence activities against and to the detriment of some of our neighbouring countries, including Serbia, said today Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov at a press conference commenting on the accusations of his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dačić that Serbian diplomats in Skopje had their telephones tapped, that...

At today's session, the Constitutional Court passed a decision to initiate a procedure to determine the constitutionality of Article 175 of the Law on Electronic Communications. The majority of the judges at the session expressed doubt that the way the Law was regulated, through articles 168 and the disputable article 175, UBK and the Ministry of the Interior were...

Today, prosecutors from the Special Prosecutor’s Office held a “working meeting of a higher level” with representatives from “Macedonian Telecom”, regarding the SPO’s request for a search warrant for the computer systems in their investigation into the mass wiretapping affair. “At the premises of “Macedonian Telecom”, today we held a working meeting of a higher level with representatives of the...

On the daily agenda for the session, there are no key initiatives that interest the public, like those on the Law on the Special Public Prosecutor, local elections and the wiretapping through telecom operators. The most recent of these are the two initiatives submitted by the Ministry of Local Self-Government and the World Macedonian Congress (WMC) requiring the abolition of...

Today, Constitutional judges postponed the initiative for assessing the constitutionality and legality of the controversial Article 175 of the Law on Electronic Communications for another session. The reason for this decision, is the extensive material submitted for the initiative, stated judges at today’s session. Otherwise, Article 175 which was adopted to the Law on Electronic Communications in 2014, instructs telecom operators...

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 consequences for the security of...

Judge Lidija Petrovska, who presides over the “Fortress 2” trial, removed the press from the courtroom so the content of an official letter the SPO received from the Ministry of Interior could be read. The letter was received upon the request for declassification of information and the use of classified information in the court hearing. All seven defendants were present...

Up until today, a total of 81 requests arrived at the Special Prosecutor’s Office by concerned citizens who were interested whether their phone numbers were being illegally monitored, announced the SPO today, adding that the requests regarded 245 telephone numbers. The SPO say that all individuals interested may send them a written application, and in the application to state the...

We haven’t received any complaints from any of our members that their phones were wiretapped or that their businesses were affected in any way, answered the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Northwestern Macedonia, Nebi Hoxha, when a journalist asked a question about the latest investigation that was opened by the Special Prosecutor's Office, the "Target" case, which...

Although the issue was raised today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) did not say whether in the past seven years (from 2008 to the end of 2015) ambassadors and diplomats in the country were tapped, as well as the Commander in Chief, Gjorge Ivanov. They did confirm that politicians, journalists and businessmen had been tapped. Prosecutor Lence Ristoska, although would...

A total of 5,817 telephone numbers were illegally tapped by the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence through its monitoring systems of communication from the period of 2008 to 2015, revealed the Special Prosecutor's Office in their new case "Target", which they presented today. About ten former and current employees of UBK, which were in managerial positions or were part of...