The Criminal Council of the Organized Crime and Corruption Department within Basic Court Skopje 1 has rejected Friday the appeals of Nikola Gruevski and his defense lawyers, thus confirming the judge’s verdict, under which the former PM and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE party should report to the prison in Skopje to serve a two-year sentence. …
The Parliament will hold Thursday a session over the motion for termination of the MP mandate of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski for the purpose of serving a two-year prison sentence over Special Prosecutor’s Office case ‘Tank’. The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed Wednesday the motion by majority of votes. …
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The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed by majority of votes the court’s motion for termination of the MP mandate of Nikola Gruevski for the purpose of serving a two-year prison sentence over Special Prosecutor’s Office case dubbed Tank. VMRO-DPMNE MPs abandoned the session, claiming it is a political process not …
The chances of depriving the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate due to the final verdict on the case ‘Tank’ are very small. The two-thirds majority, which passed the decision to join the constitutional changes, is unlikely to be repeated in the case of Gruevski. His until recently fellow party members, who …
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VMRO-DPMNE refuses to respond to the letter sent by the excluded Saso Mijalkov to the party leadership. The estimates in the “White Palace” are that any further interference into the quarrel with the man they consider the main culprit for the division in the Parliament will bring only harm, especially as it was clearly known …
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Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said in a statement to the media that Macedonia needs a strong and unified VMRO-DPMNE to defeat this government. Gruevski did not respond to the journalist’s questions whether Hristijan Mickoski is on the right track. This will be said by the people in the elections, Gruevski said. The honorary president …
Tampered or not, the purge that VMRO-DPMNE conducted Monday evening will affect the party. Overnight, they were left without a quarter of their deputies in the parliament, without one of the main financiers, without one of the four mayors who were from their ranks, but also without the “chief” that was running the country and …
The confirmed prison sentence for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski awaits to be transferred from the Court of Appeal to a judge for the execution of sanctions, after which the new era of the life of the once most powerful politician in the country begins. This does not mean that he will be immediately taken …
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Former prime minister Nikola Gruevski on Friday called the decision of the Appellate Court upholding his two-year prison sentence ‘political pressure and political repression.’ He will be imprisoned for the illicit purchase of a luxury, €600,000 Mercedes. “It is political repression and a politically-staged process that is ongoing. The only thing that changed after my press conference …
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The Appellate Court in Skopje dismissed an appeal by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, as being ‘groundless’, against a ruling over a two-year prison sentence. The Skopje court partially upheld an appeal by a defendant, namely the former associate interior minister, Gjoko Popovski. It changed a section of the sentencing decision and sentenced him to …
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The verdict has numerous shortcomings, primarily serious violations in the procedure, and major violations have been made in the Criminal Code, said the lawyer Sterio Zikov, explaining the appeal to the trial court of the Appellate Court for Gjoko Popovski in the “Tenk” case. According to him, there are violations of the criminal procedure in …
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Former Prime Minister and leader of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Gruevski described as “vain attempts” and “nonsense” the information published by WikiLeaks, stating that in 2008, when he was leading the government, the Macedonian authorities accepted the name “Republic Northern Macedonia “. – These are vain attempts of the government, and there are likely to be many …
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The Appellate Court in Skopje yesterday postponed the hearing on the appeal of the first instance verdict in the case of the Tank case, for which former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison, while the assistant minister in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gjoko Popovski, was sentenced to six years …
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski should appear before the Appellate Court in Skopje today to begin a hearing on the May verdict in the Tank case, in which he was sentenced to two years in prison for illicit influence in the purchase of the luxury Mercedes. His defense filed an appeal on the grounds that …
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More than 900 ‘bombs’ remain to be heard as the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic trial resumes in Skopje’s Criminal Court today. The wiretapped recordings are related to the abuse of power by several former officials in 2012. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former PM Nikola Gruevski. Judge Osman Sabani is presiding the …
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The Special Prosecutor’s Office is resuming the Titanic case trial in the Criminal Court in Skopje on Thursday. The TNT and the Target-Fortress trials are set to continue in late August. The previous Titanic hearing was scheduled for July 3, but defendant Gordana Jankulovska’s lawyer Sanja Aleksic said that the former Interior Minister was unable …
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With the testimony of the councilor in the Council of the Municipality of Centar, Cvetanka Simonovska, continued the trial of the violence in the Municipality of Centar, and the ordered slaps by the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for the former mayor Andrej Zernovski. Simonovska said that on June 7, 2013, when a session of …
Citing pregnancy complications, defendant Gordana Jankuloska did not show up at Thursday’s hearing for the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic case. The hearing has been postponed for July 3. Jankuloska’s lawyer Sanja Aleksic said that the former Interior Minister was unable to attend the hearing because of her current condition and delivered a medical certificate. Public …
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Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is right when he says that in his “time”, referring to the ten years spent at the helm of Macedonia, he did not know any of the judges. If they believe the “bombs” that the then-opposition was broadcasting, and the current government, some other people in his closest environment and …
“Bombs” are being presented at the hearing of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) Trajectory case, which is taking place at the Skopje-based Criminal Court on Tuesday. Former PM Nikola Gruevski, former Vice-premier Vladimir Pesevski, former Transport Minister Mile Janakieski and former State Roads Agency director Ljupco Georgievski are at the hearing. They are suspected of …
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