Fugitives from justice are far from justice: There is no coming back for escaped politicians


Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski became a VIP fugitive, former intelligence officials Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boskoski who are accused of being behind the massive wiretapping in Macedonia are free citizens in Greece, and Alil Demiri and Afrim Ismailovic, accused and already convicted for the five-time murder near Smilkovo Lake, are also walking freely in …

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Justice Minister Deskoska: Request for extradition of Gruevski to be sent by tomorrow


The formal extradition request for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is going to be sent to Hungary today or tomorrow at the latest, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told the press on Tuesday. In addition to documents on the Tank case, in which Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison, the Hungarian authorities will be …

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Gruevski’s escape sparks debates between majority and opposition


The escape of the former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski has aggravated the political situation between majority and opposition. SDSM led by PM Zoran Zaev has pointed its finger toward the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. According to this party, Mickoski has aided Gruevski to leave the country. “In a televised interview, Mickoski has …

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Jakimovski: Let’s not be naive about Gruevski’s escape


GROM’s leader Stevco Jakimovski estimates that with Gruevski’s escape we are all defeated: both the government and the opposition, the whole justice and himself.”But the biggest culprits are those who created the assumptions about the escape. Human rights violations, procedural law violations, trial without a lawyer, trial in enormously short deadlines, trial for a ridiculous …

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The police had to know where Gruevski was


The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office joined in the investigation following the information in the public and in the public interest after receiving certain details. They suspect that certain officials, by abusing their position and authorization, enabled the convicted person to leave the country. Within the pre-trial procedure, a series of measures for gathering evidence have …

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Orban should resign


Slobodanka Jovanovska Editor in Chief of Nezavisen Vesnik There is no one to resign in Macedonia for the major scandal that happened this week, Nikola Gruevski’s escape. Moreover, the way Prime Minister Zoran Zaev started with the excuses, the only one he would ask to resign would be Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Yesterday, Zaev …

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Zaev: We expect Hungary to show that it won’t protect criminals


Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the Interior Ministry had acted in line with a court order and within its legal jurisdiction noting that the procedure for his extradition had been opened after the Hungarian interior ministry had sent a notification confirming Gruevski’s whereabouts in Budapest. “Without a court order, the Interior Ministry cannot approach …

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Who let Gruevski escape?


While the Alpha police unit along with the journalists knocked on his door and looked for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski so he could be taken to the Sutka penitentiary, and searched the trunks of cars that entered the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, Gruevski announced that he had left for Budapest, to his close friend Viktor …

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30-day detention for Janakieski and Bozinovski


Mile Janakieski, former minister of transport and communications,  and Kiril Bozinovski, former government secretary-general,  have been detained and transferred to the Sutka prison, the Ministry of Interior said. Both were detained early on Wednesday upon an order issued by the Criminal Court at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Janakieski and Bozinovski are indicted …

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SPO denies responsibility in Gruevski’s escape


The Special Prosecutor’s Office has no guilt in the escape of Nikola Gruevski. We have continually urged and filed requests for detention and the court was the institution that took the decisions, said prosecutor Lile Stefanova on Wednesday. Stefanova told reporters that the responsibility for Gruevski’s escape was institutional. “SPO has continually appealed and filed …

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Xhaferi: Gruevski’s MP status to be re-examined in Parliament


Extraordinary coordination with the vice-presidents of parliament and the coordinators of the parliamentary groups for reviewing the status of Nikola Gruevski as an MP, announced Speaker Talat Xhaferi after the former prime minister announced that he had fled to Hungary. – Members of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group have so far reported Gruevski as absent from the sessions, …

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Spasovski: The ones that should take responsibility are the ones that let Gruevski walk freely


The police searched yesterday the home of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski and several other locations will also be targeted. Other measures will also be taken, such as car checks, along with enhanced police presence at the exit of Skopje and border crossings, said Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski on Tuesday. Minister Spasovski told reporters …

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Former UBK director Mijalkov doesn’t know where Gruevski is


Former head of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence and one of the excluded members of VMRO-DPMNE Saso Mijalkov said he didn’t know the whereabouts of his first cousin and former PM Nikola Gruevski, who has been wanted by the police since last night. “I don’t know,” Mijalkov responded briefly to a reporter who asked …

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