Mijalkov released from Sutka prison before elections


The Skopje-based Appellate Court has ordered house arrest for former director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Sasho Mijalkov and former State Election Commission (SEC) member Bedredin Ibraimi in the Special Prosecutor’s Office case dubbed “Titanic 2”. Former SEC member Aneta Stefanovska will be under precautionary measures, while the complaints of Vlatko Sajkovski …

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The “Empire” is safe


The flood in the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office destroyed evidence from one of the most important cases – “Empire”. This news flooded the media yesterday, so that later the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office had to explain that things were quite different. The SPO said that there was no flood in the institution, but that a …

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The “Empire” is safe


The flood in the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office destroyed evidence from one of the most important cases – “Empire”. This news flooded the media yesterday, so that later the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office had to explain that things were quite different. The SPO said that there was no flood in the institution, but that a …

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Supreme Court releases businessmen from SPO’s ‘Empire’ case


The Supreme Court accepted the appeals and the businessmen Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandeleski and Nenad Josifovic, suspects in the investigation of the SPO’s Empire case, are coming out of house arrest. This information is unofficial and is expected to be confirmed during the day. According to legal opinion established by Supreme judges in a general …

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Vice Zaev was not offended by the alleged coalition with Mijalkov, but for the business


Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s brother Vice Zaev yesterday did not appear at the pre-trial hearing in the civil court, where he filed a defamation lawsuit against VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski. Zoran and Vice’s cousin Goran Zaev came to court as his attorney. The public was almost certain that Vice Zaev sued Nikoloski for the …

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SPO requests home arrest for Kamcev, Pandelevski, Janakieski and Bozinovski, no motion for Mijalkov


The Special Prosecutor’s Office has requested that detention is replaced by home arrest for several defendants in the Empire case, the SPO has told MIA. The SPO has requested that Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandeleski and several others are placed under house arrest, while there is no such motion for former UBK chief Saso Mijalkov. The …

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Ex-UBK chief Mijalkov stays in Sutka


The Criminal Council rejected the appeal of former director of the Security and Counterintelligence Directorate, Saso Mijalkov, therefore he is staying in the investigative prison in Sutka. The judges confirmed that Mijalkov was a flight risk and a threat to influencing witnesses, and confirmed the judge’s decision on a pre-trial procedure that ordered detention for …

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Mijalkov gets another 30-day detention in SPO’s ‘Empire’ case


Upon request of the SPO, the Skopje Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention in ‘Empire’ case and revoked detention order in ‘Target-Fortress’ case for Macedonia’s former UBK director Saso Mijalkov, announced the Criminal Court. Criminal Court ordered a 30-day detention on grounds of flight risk and influencing witnesses. The Special Prosecutor’s Office launched new investigation under …

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Defense to appeal detention order for former UBK director Mijalkov


The defense of the ex-secret police head, Saso Mijalkov, who was detained late on Tuesday, said it would file an appeal by the end of the day. To order detention is unheard of without the defendant being summoned and questioned, Mijalkov’s lawyers claim. “The Law on Criminal Procedure stipulates that every individual should be summoned …

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Former UBK director Mijalkov in detention for the Target case


 On the request of the Special Prosecution Office (SPO) the Skopje Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention for the former Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), Saso Mijalkov. The detention measure is ordered under the ‘Target-Fortress’ case, SPO said. Former UBK officials Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskoski, former minister of interior …

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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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