Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who is in exile, has reacted on his Facebook profile after he and another four other former officials are suspected of organizing the violent events taken place in the country’s parliament on April 27, 2017. “I have not organized those violent events and I have not approved such attack against …
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The extradition request for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is expected to be extended to the events of 27 April 2017, for which he is suspected of a terrorist threat to constitutional order and security. Gruevski is one of the five new suspects in the investigation that opened yesterday the Prosecutor’s Office for prosecuting organized …
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Court judge from a previous procedure has ordered 30-day detention for former Minister of transport and communications Mile Janakieski and former Minister of labor and social policy Spiro Ristoski, who are suspected of organizing the April 27 violent events in the Parliament. The detention order was given to the former ministers due to flight risk and …
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VMRO-DPMNE MP Ilija Dimovski delayed the first hearing in the Thaler case, a case opened by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office for his party’s unlawful financing. Dimovski informed the Court on 13 February that as a Member of Parliament and Head of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO, he will participate in …
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The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office found that no official person had helped or participated in the organization and realization of Nikola Gruevski’s escape. So far, the evidence obtained has led to the conclusion that there were certain shortcomings in the actions of the competent institutions, but they did not constitute a criminal offense and were …
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The interview with “The King of Exile”, former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for TV Sitel, which, as we learned from the wiretapped materials, was the main “microphone” in the hands of his regime – is only the last episode of the Macedonian political theater of the absurd. The fifteen-minute-long conversation, in which he mostly talks …
“One day I will return, I didn’t come here to live, but to take refuge from political persecution. I’m unjustly convicted. I fought in court, but I saw that all the absurdities were met for me to go prison,” said former Prime Minister Gruevski in his first TV interview since his escape to Hungary. Gruevski also said that …
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The violent events in the Macedonian Parliament was organized by the then-director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Cavkov, on the order of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, said Prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska in her closing arguments, referring to the testimony of the protected witness in this case. Ruskovska said that from the testimonies of several …
The Parliament added Wednesday a provision to the Law on MPs, which results in stripping former Prime Minister Nikola Gruievski of his salary as a Member of Parliament. The provision reads that if a Member of Parliament is sentenced to a prison sentence exceeding six months, he/she loses the right to a salary and other fees. …
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The video recordings requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office from their colleagues in Albania to determine how former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski had fled were erased. Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski announced yesterday that the recordings they requested were not handed over to them. The explanation of the Albanian authorities was that there was a …
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State Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski said Tuesday they have not received the video recordings from Albania related to the escape of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski. Regarding the international legal assistance that was requested from the Albanian judicial authorities, it has not been provided and we do not have the recordings, said Joveski. He said there …
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A lawmaker who has been sentenced to a maximum of six months in prison will lose the right to salary and other benefits. That is the essence of the changes of the Law on MPs that were submitted this morning after an urgent procedure in parliament and were immediately added to the agenda of today’s …
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The owner of the Kosmos residential complex in Skopje, businessman Fijat Canoski, told the court Wednesday that its demolition was of ‘political nature’. He said he would also seek damages, which was estimated at €40 million during the investigation. Evidence provided by two witnesses were read out loud at today’s trial in the Criminal Court. The …
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The Council for Evaluation of the Indictment before the holidays held a public session which considered the indictment of the “Thaler” case for the illegal financing of VMRO-DPMNE, but it has not yet decided whether to accept or not the charge for this case of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office. Although some of the media …
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Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski didn’t leave the territory of the Republic of Macedonia by crossing any of the border crossings. Witnesses have been questioned, but I will refrain from giving any other details so as not to harm the preliminary investigation, said State Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski. “Public prosecutors are taking actions to …
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As the Public Prosecutor’s Office was announcing that the report on Nikola Gruevski’s escape will be released in the next two weeks, the first photos and video footage of the careless life of the former prime minister in the Hungarian capital of Budapest were leaked. A video from Gruevski leaked yesterday, which was recorded by reporters …
Macedonia’s Justice Minister Renata Deskoska is expecting Hungary, an EU member country, to act according to European standards and conventions and extradite Nikola Gruevski. She said that her country has the right to demand Gruevski’s extradition. “It’s within the right of Hungarian authorities to take a decision on this, but I expect the government of …
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EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn has declared ahead of the start of the meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers that he does not believe that Nikola Gruevski will be extradited from Hungary to Macedonia. Asked if he supports the amendments adopted by the European Parliament where Hungary is asked to return Gruevski …
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The Sofia Medical Center “Majcin Dom” banned Dr Nikolce Damcevski from performing medical activity, considering that there is an effective decision against him for a two-year prison sentence in Macedonia. Before our Ministry of Health addressed the Bulgarian authorities, Damcevski duly performed his work in the capital of Bulgaria, and was even considered one of …
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It is obvious that the goal was to declare a state of emergency, and the question is what would have happened to the country. The investigation to check the information that the military actively participated in the incidents in the Parliament. It is indicative that Nikola Gruevski was out of the country, so it should …
