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46-Year-Old Detained on Suspicion of Helping Palevski Escape to Turkiye

Prior to Interior Minister Spasovski’s press-conference, a 46-year-old man from Skopje had been detained in the case concerning the murders of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski. Police suspect that he helped prime suspect, Ljupco Palevski, escape to Turkiye, that is, he drove him from Serbia to Bulgaria and from Bulgaria to Turkey. Prosecutors have evidence that the suspect three days ...

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Gjorcevska Case: Father Continues to Deny Involvement

At Tuesday’s interrogation at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, the father of Vanja Gjorcevska, denied again involvement in the case. The Prosecutor’s Office still hasn’t received an autopsy finding because work is underway also on the other analyses. The autopsy report will be one of the key pieces of evidence in the case. Three of the detained suspects, Vlatko Kesisov ...

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New Reactions to Gjorcevska and Zezovski Murders

The murders of teenager Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski has continued to spark reactions. SDSM said on Tuesday the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office had shown professionalism and took, in a timely fashion, proper and intensive activities. On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE believes that the fact that the prime suspect, Ljupco Palevski is at large, shows police didn’t react ...

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Ministry Rebuts ‘Speculations’ About Alleged Prevented Kidnapping Attempt

On Tuesday, the Interior Ministry rebutted as it said, speculations, about an alleged prevented attempt to kidnap a juvenile from a schoolyard in Karbinci Municipality. “According to the official report to police, today, at 9:52 am, it was reported to the Stip Internal Affairs Sector by a primary school in Karbinci, that a Golf passenger vehicle driven by a young ...

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US: Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Angjusev Designated for ‘Significant Corruption’

Ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Kocho Angjusev has been designated for “significant corruption”, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday. “The United States is designating Koco Angjusev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia, as generally ineligible for entry into the United States, due to his involvement in significant corruption. While serving as Deputy Prime Minister, ...

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Prosecutor Bubevski: Gjorcevska’s Father has Denied Involvement

The father of Vanja Gjorcevska, the 14-year-old missing girl killed on 27 November, has denied involvement in the case. “Perhaps something will change and has changed. The father still denies these activities. So, we still draw his involvement, which we still consider to be direct in this case, to the context of what the other people involved in the case ...

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Political Leaders React to Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski Murders

Commenting on the murders of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday that based on the explanations by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Prosecutor Gavril Bubevski, “it’s about an isolated a case of criminals that should be punished most fiercely, according to the laws”. Both the Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office, he added, managed to most ...

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New Reactions to Vanja Gjorcevska Murder

Reactions to the murder of 14-year-old Vanja Gjorcevska have continued. “I, too, as all citizens of this country, am angry. The Constitution bans capital punishment. We also have adopted protocols and other conventions banning that,” Justice Minister Krenar Lloga said on Monday. In his view, the death penalty, however, “would represent salvation for those monsters”, that is, those responsible should ...

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VMRO-DPMNE Reiterates Criticism of Interior Ministry

At a press-conference on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE alleged Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and police had reacted too late regarding the case of Vanja Gjorcevska. MP Igor Janusev said: “The main and essential questions for Spasovski are: “When did the investigation find out about the perpetrators of the monstrous murders and were they hiding and not taking any action due to the ...

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SDSM MP Kostovski Posts Photo of Gjorcevska’s Father

SDSM MP Martin Kostovski, commenting on the murder of 14-year-old Vanja Gjorcevska, posted on social media a photo of her father, who’s among the suspects in the case. “WITH WHICH HEART, SOUL, AND BRAIN did you put greed ahead of your child’s life?! WHILE THE CHILD TRUSTED YOU!!! How you will explain now to the other one that you are ...

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