Thursday, 8 April 2021
Macedonia 08.04.21 | 12:16

LIVE: New revelations of mobsters who were issued passports by the Macedonian Interior Ministry

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski is holding a press conference to reveal additional names of European mobsters who were issued passports by the Zaev regime. During the week, VMRO revealed that Albanian, Serbian and Turkish mobsters were given passports over the past four years. Another...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 11:33

VMRO-DPMNE: Why didn’t Spasovski inform other police services that mobsters are using passports issued by his Ministry?

The VMRO-DPMNE party issued a press release to respond to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski’s attempts to spin the growing “passports for criminals” scandal. The Interior Ministry was revealed by VMRO-DPMNE to have been issuing passports to a number of regional mafia bosses, including...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 11:19

Economist vaccination tracker ranks Macedonia among the worst performers in the region

Macedonia is among the worst performing countries in the region in terms of vaccinations, the Economist tracker shows. Macedonian healthcare authorities have only been able to administer about 12,000 vaccines, which amounts to 0.7 percent of the population covered with the first dose only. Only Bosnia...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 10:43

Peker was given police escort during his stay in Macedonia

Photographs of Turkish mobster Sedat Peker, taken during his stay in Macedonia, show that he had a police officer escorting him. Orhan Hamza was frequently seen in Peker’s company, while he was visiting local mobsters and politicians close to SDSM. The ruling SDSM party is embroiled in a scandal...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 10:28

Albanian groups plan protest in support of the killers of Nikola Sazdovski – Sazdo

Families of the three ethnic Albanian football hooligans who beat a young Macedonian to death in 2018 will protest on Friday for their release. Jeton Luza, Besir Belja and Skender Demiri were charged in the killing of Nikola Sazdovski – Sazdo (20), who was fan of the Macedonian Vardar club. The...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 10:17

VIDEO: Turkish mobster Peker filmed with an SDSM member of Parliament

Among the multitude of meetings Turkish mobster Sedat Peker had while in Macedonia is one including SDSM member of Parliament Enes Ibrahim. Peker, who was a wanted man in Turkey and was hiding in Macedonia in 2020 and 2021, took a casual stroll with Ibrahim down the Skopje Old Bazaar. While in Macedonia,...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 09:32

Six detained over the “passports for criminals” scandal

Six suspects, including Interior Ministry clerks, were ordered into detention for a month after they were arrested for issuing passports to high level regional criminals. Another two regional mobsters were given Macedonian passports by the Zaev regime The scandal was revealed by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 09:26

Political prisoner Mitko Cavkov contracted the coronavirus in the Stip prison

Former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov, who is now a political prisoner of the Zaev regime, has contracted the coronavirus in the Stip prison. Warden Miki Todorov informed that three guards and five prisoners are infected with the virus. As a result, the infected prisoners are kept isolated from the other...

Macedonia 08.04.21 | 08:46

Girl badly injured after a hit and run in Strumica

A 21 year old woman was badly injured in a hit and run incident in downtown Strumica yesterday evening. The woman, from the village of Rusinovo, was residing in Strumica. She was hit while crossing a street on a pedestrian crossing. Due to the severity of her injuries, she had to be taken to Skopje for...