Tag: spo
Macedonia 05.12.19 | 22:53

Mickoski: The party has nothing to do with Kamcev’s businesses, but it has illegally frozen property and cannot function properly

The party has no to do with the businesses that were mentioned in the media today, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said Thursday in Gjorce Petrov, answering a journalist’s question about the police raiding Orce Kamcev’s businesses. I guess this is some of the ways SDSM, Zoran Zaev,...

Macedonia 04.12.19 | 17:54

SPO prosecutors are having a hard time proving that the 2013 elections were tampered with

During the latest hearing in a trial intiiated by Katica Janeva’s Special Prosecutor’s Office that alleges election tampering, the witness testimonies again didn’t go the way of the SPO. Prosecutor Lile Stefanova, from the now thoroughly disgraced unit, is still pushing the case against...

Macedonia 02.12.19 | 18:38

Mickoski: Charlie’s Angels turned out to be Zaev’s partners in crime

Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski described the situation in the Macedonian judiciary as alarming, after the latest scandal to hit the disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office and its prosecutors were found to have awarded themselves huge bonuses in violation of the law. At a time when we have...

Macedonia 30.11.19 | 22:10

Anti-Corruption Commission: “Other income” not included in SPO prosecutors’ reports

The confidentiality fee, higher than the basic salary paid to SPO prosecutors, is not included in their reports, Anti-Corruption Commission chair Biljana Ivanovska told Telma TV, adding that the “other incomes” graph is empty. The SPO prosecutors incomes are under the scrutiny of anti-corruption...

Macedonia 30.11.19 | 11:56

Buckovski says SPO is a disaster, SPO’s high bonuses were a public secret

Former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski spoke on TV Kanal 5’s “Samo intervju” show about the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office and said it was a symbol of the majority of citizens eager for justice, and now it is a great disappointment. He added that there were reports that enormously...

Macedonia 29.11.19 | 23:10

Katica Janeva’s nephew also took money from the SPO

No big deal, outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday about the people’s money that SPO staff awarded themselves. The outgoing prime minister does not want to tarnish SPO’s reputation for “a few cases”. And the few cases are increasing day by day. So among the people who...

Macedonia 29.11.19 | 19:16

“Alfa”: What Zaev said about the bonuses in the SEC, and what he says now about the SPO

How much does the former SPO mean to the outgoing prime minister, when he at all costs finds justification for all the mistakes, abuses, broken principles at the institution, analyzes “Alfa”, adding that despite angry reactions from the public shocked by the huge amount of bonuses the prosecutors...

Macedonia 28.11.19 | 21:55

Husband of doctor granting sick leave to Janeva also took 25,000 euro bonuses from SPO

The husband of the director of the hospital in Negorci, who is employed at the SPO, received bonuses of 25,000 euros. This was shown by the Ministry of Finance’s Open Finance database. Ljuba Cilkova became known in the public for granting a sick leave to former special prosecutor Katica Janeva...

Macedonia 28.11.19 | 18:00

Joveski: It is absurd for a secretary to have a higher salary than the president of the state

Initial observations show that on the same grounds, bonuses were twice awarded, casting doubt on the fact that the bonuses were classified information, says State Prosecutor Ljubomir Jowski, in relation to the payment of bonuses to SPO prosecutors and investigators. The fact that the bonuses are classified...

Macedonia 28.11.19 | 12:00

On top of the political abuse of office, racketeering and illegal bonuses, Janeva was also awarding no-bid contracts

Republika has learnt that, on top of the scandals with the hugely outsized and illegally paid salaries and bonuses in the Special Prosecutor’s Office, this institution was also awarding sizable no-bid public procurement contracts. One of these contracts, Republika has learnt, includes rent-a-car...

Macedonia 27.11.19 | 22:11

Lawyer Menkinoski says special prosecutors should assume responsibility and return the money, or to be suspended

Special prosecutors should immediately assume responsibility and resign, and if they do not resign, then Ljubomir Jovevski should immediately suspend and dismiss them, lawyer Toni Menkinoski said Wednesday on TV Alfa’s “Sto ne e jasno” show, debating on the enormous fees given to SPO...

Macedonia 27.11.19 | 16:53

Fetai acknowledges receiving 71,400 euros bonuses from SPO – along with other payments and a salary of 285,000 euros

Fetai’s attempt to relativize her bonuses through MPs’ travel expenses, for which the public has reacted sharply and is still reacting, is a sign of despair and recognition for the position. On the other hand, confirming the relevance of her bonuses, Fetai also confirmed the published data...

Macedonia 27.11.19 | 13:23

Fatime Fetai complains about being forced to do storage duties and insists that her SPO office was not raided

Fatime Fetai, one of the top deputies to disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, defended the payment of large bonuses to SPO prosecutors even as the institution is being investigated by its rivals from the OJO service. OJO prosecutors under Vilma Ruskoska raided the SPO yesterday, and seized documents...

Macedonia 27.11.19 | 10:22

Milososki says that SPO prosecutors who give back the money they took illegally should have that taken as a mitigating factor in the coming investigations

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Antonio Milososki, who was part of the negotiations on the law on state prosecutors, said that it is necessary to investigate the likely illegal awarding of hundreds of thousands of euros in bonuses by disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Organized crime prosecutors...

Macedonia 26.11.19 | 21:51

Ruskoska raided the Special Prosecutor’s Office, is looking into Janeva’s finances

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska raided the Special Prosecutor’s Office today in a new investigation that is focused on the way in which former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva was spending the significant funding given to her “elite” unit.\ According to the Vecer site, the...

Macedonia 26.11.19 | 19:38

French Ambassador Thimonier wants to see a new law on state prosecutors and progress in fighting crime and corruption

French Ambassador to Macedonia Christian Thimonier said that the veto for Macedonia and Albania and the subsequent non – paper proposal to re-organize the EU accession process are not a historic mistake but a “historic opportunity” to fix the EU enlargement model. Speaking before the...

Macedonia 26.11.19 | 14:45

Investigators search SPO offices

Investigators are searching the offices of the Special Public Prosecution (SPO) to collect evidence from financial documents after a search warrant was issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it told MIA. It pointed out that it was a preliminary procedure. Further reviews of the spending that...

Macedonia 23.11.19 | 12:21

Judge Tufegcic calls for an investigation into how Janeva spent the SPO budget

Judge Vladimir Tufegcic called on a financial investigation into the work of the now fully disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office. Tufegcic says that his comment is prompted by the new fiscal accountability tool used by the Finance Ministry, which showed that detained Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva...

Macedonia 22.11.19 | 20:09

Who benefited from SPO’s special treasury?

In his latest column, journalist Branko Geroski, among other things, refers to the so-called “special treasury” that existed in the SPO, which was run by Katica Janeva. According to my information, the Special Prosecutor’s Office also had a so-called. special treasury. There used to...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 22:52

Siljanovska: If you elect not well educated people, you can expect “Racket” from them

The Special Public Prosecutor’s Office was a parallel body with a budget several times larger than other bodies, and when something is created in parallel it cannot be controlled, university professor Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said in an interview with Kanal 5’s “Samo intervju”...

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