In the decision rejecting Goran Gjosevski’s amnesty request in the 27 April case, the Criminal Court mistakenly wrote the name of Abdul Feta Alimi. The two persons, who were Parliament employees during the 27 April 2017 attacks, weren’t amnestied. However, Gjosevski’s lawyer, Ruzica Nikolovska, suspects it’s about so-called copy-paste decisions containing improper formulations that were adopted quickly without taking into ...

On Thursday, the Criminal Court said the amnesty requests submitted to it over the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament had been sent to the relevant prosecutor’s office for an opinion. Once the opinion is obtained, the Court will make within the legal deadline decisions that will be submitted to the parties. The public will be informed ...

Judges from the Criminal Court, during the making of the decisions on detention, were saying they were doing that under dictate from US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily. Those pieces of information reached the Ambassador, who, in response, wrote a letter to the Court’s President, Ivan Dzolev, expressing disappointment. This news was reported by the SDK portal on Wednesday, citing ...

The Amnesty Law was published on Friday in the Official Gazette, following President Gjorge Ivanov’s signing. That means a start of the five-day deadline that defendants in the 27 April case have to file a request to be covered in the procedure. Goran Angelov and Ivan Cvetanovski will be among those that will file an amnesty request. Their lawyer said ...

Due to the short period of time to submit a request to take the former Director of the Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) Director, Saso Mijalkov, from detention to the Criminal Court, Wednesday’s hearing over the Target-Fortress case was postponed for 4 December. According to information obtained by Telma TV, the decision on a detention order for Mijalkov shows that there ...

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 ...

Former PM Nikola Gruevski is still not in prison. On Friday, last working day of the week, the Criminal Court had an unsuccessful attempt to submit the decision on the two-year prison sentence in the Tank case to him. Court submitters didn’t found Gruevski in his home. His wife, Borkica, told him he had gone out. That means that the ...

On Wednesday, the Committee on Mandatory-Immunity Issues, with a majority votes in favour, accepted the Court’s request and recommended Parliament to take away Nikola Gruevski’s MP mandate because of the two-year sentence in the Tank case. Five of the nine Committee members voted in favour. The vote wasn’t attended by the VMRO-DPMNE members. Though they had come for the session, ...

Krsto Mukoski, who is part of the new parliamentary group, considers that the Criminal Court should allow him to have more time for the MP position. Part of the MPs charged in the trial over the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament think that it’s necessary for them to have more free time so that they get involved in Parliament’s ...

A judge for execution of sanctions with the Criminal Court has rejected the appeal filed by former PM Nikola Gruevski for the start of the two-year prison sentence in the Tank case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, to be postponed. The decision has been sent to the parties in the procedure, which have a right to file appeal it ...