Petition over Kocevski-Hajrullahi Issue so far not Received by Council

Council of Public Prosecutors President Dusica Dimitrieska says that the body headed by her hasn’t so far received any petition regarding the claims by the Skopje Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office’s Chief, Mustafa Hajrullahi, that Chief Public Prosecutor Kocevski directly told him to be careful when it came to how he should act in the case concerning the bonuses for prosecutors of the now-defunct Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) and that the capacity of damaged party should not be given to VMRO-DPMNE, which, before Hajrullahi’s Office, has appealed the case, closed by the Abazi-headed Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption in December of last year.

Starting from Monday, she points out, the Council will start a procedure to decide how to act and whether it will contact the Prosecutors. Hajrullahi has confirmed that the Council hasn’t been contacted.

According to him, precisely as a result of the SPO bonuses case, the higher Office sent a working group in charge of oversight that, he claims, included two persons that had conflict of interest.

“In this regard, it’s problematic whether Prosecutor Lile Stefanova, who was an active participant in the SPO cases, can oversee her work because she was active in one of the cases the oversight covers. The other person is Prosecutor Elvin Veli, who had been a working group member, too, before his election to the country’s Public Prosecutor’s Office. He was also the Deputy Chief of the Office headed by me. His cases are still active and circulating the Higher Office. In this regard, it’s debatable whether he was allowed to participate in the group,” Hajrulahhi stresses.

Over the matter, PM Hristijan Mickoski expects Kocevski to publicly explain everything that went on.