Judge Vesna Dimiskova didn’t make a decision on Friday to replace the detention measure with house arrest for the former Director of the Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration (UBK), Saso Mijalkov, because the Special Prosecutor’s Office’s (SPO) proposal to annul the measure was incomplete and she returned to the SPO to be amended. Once an appropriate proposal is filed, a decision ...

The SDSM-DUI ruling coalition filed on Wednesday draft changes to the Criminal Code that would reduce sentences for the act of abuse of the public call procedure, awarding a contract for public procurement or public-private partnership regulated by Article 275-c. The prison sentences of minimum five years will be reduced to four, which will lead to a shorter period for ...

The trial over the Target-Fortress case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), was postponed for 29 January upon a request from former UBK head Saso Mijalkov’s lawyer, Ljupco Svrgovski. The lawyer requested the postponement because of the testimony of the SPO’s witness, Gjoko Lazarevski, because it contains professional terms, while the defence, during cross-examination, isn’t able to ask him ...

Nikola Gruevski’s medical condition is great, Aleksandar Trajkovski, who was spotted on the photo with the former PM in Budapest, said on Monday. “He’s worried and doesn’t go out often,” he added. Asked by Fatime Fetai of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) why he’d gone to the Hungarian capital for the sinuses problem considering the weather there, too, was cold, ...

On Thursday, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) filed two charges in relation to the Thaler case. The first one concerns illegal financing of VMRO-DPMNE, while the other pertains to the construction of the party’s HQ in the centre of Skopje. The first charge covers, among others, former VMRO-DPMNE leader and ex-PM Nikola Gruevski, MP Ilija Dimovski, ex-Transport Minister Mile Janakieski ...

On Tuesday, Saso Mijalkov, former Director Security and Counter-intelligence Administration (UBK), was detained upon a request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). Police handcuffed him in the Marriott in the centre of Skopje and took him to the investigative prison in Suto Orizari. The 30-day detention order for him had been issued in relation to the Target-Fortress case, run by ...

The Criminal Court has forwarded the appeals over the detention measure for former officials Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski to the Court of Appeals in Skopje, which will review them at a public session once it gets the necessary opinion from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). If the measure in the Titanic case is confirmed, the SPO will be able ...

Wednesday’s hearing over the Titanic case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), was postponed for 23 November because there were no conditions for it to be held. Former PM Nikola Gruevski, who is in Hungary, wasn’t present. Former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski and ex-Government Sec Gen Kiril Bozinovski, who have been in detention in the prison ...

At Wednesday’s public session, the Criminal Court’s Criminal Council rejected the appeals filed by the defence and confirmed the decisions made by the judge in a previous procedure to accept the proposal for a detention measure in the Empire case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office. There are 13 suspects in the case, including the former UBK Director, Saso Mijalkov. ...

Tuesday’s hearing over the Titanic 2 case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), was postponed for 3 December. The hearing was supposed to see material evidence presented. Judge Ognen Stavrev said the defence had three days to say whether it would propose some of the defendants as witnesses. Also, he stated that he had accepted Ljupka Gugucevska, Admir Shabani ...