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Saturday, 10 April 2021

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:48

Police photos display guns and money seized from the marijuana couriers working for Zaev’s family

Photographs from the raids conducted yesterday reveal the weapons cache that was seized from Aleksandar Uslikovski, driver of Zoran Zaev’s cousin Trajce Zaev. Uslikovski was arrested along with the police commissioner of Prilep Kiril Spirkoski, as they were escorting a shipment of 200 kilograms of...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:31

Zaev and Filipce head out for another motorcycle joyride

Unfazed with public criticism after their helicopter joyride last week, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, with their retinue, took a motorcycle ride around Krusevo. At a time when Zaev and Filipce are urging the public to remain in their homes unless they have pressing...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:24

Austrian boy with origin from Macedonia arrested after threatening to attack the Vienna cathedral

Vienna police arrested a15 year old who originates from Macedonia, after he was threatening to attack civilians at the Stephansdom cathedral. The boy was enraged while attempting to chat online with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and made the threat. Police are investigating how serious the risk...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 18:29

Prosecutor Ruskoska questioned Interior Minister Spasovski over the scandal involving Zaev’s adviser Dragi Raskovski

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska summoned Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and former Interior Minister Nake Culev for questioning over the scandalous procurement of software from Dragi Raskovski, top lieutenant of the Zaev regime. Raskoski had the Interior Ministry purchase a software he developed for 80,000...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 18:13

Corona report: 32 deaths, 1,092 newly diagnosed cases

32 patients died during the past day of Covid-19, the Healthcare Ministry informed. The deceased were aged between 48 and 91. The total death toll of the epidemic now stands at 4,182. The Ministry also informed that 1,092 patients were newly diagnosed with the illness. The number of active cases rose...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 18:03

Interior Minister Spasovski is close to one of the suspects in the mafia passports scandal

One of the suspects detained in the major mafia passports scandal is close to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, it was revealed today. The Ministry is under an investigation after it was revealed that clerks issued over 200 passports to mafia figures and hitmen from the region and beyond – including...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 15:52

Police reveals details about the raid that targeted marijuana plants reportedly linked to the Zaev family

The Interior Ministry issued an official statement on the drug seizure carried out yesterday, in which the police commissioner of Prilep and the driver of a close relative of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev were caught smuggling marijuana. The Ministry said that the raid was carried out in cooperation with...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 15:35

Protesters call on Healthcare Minister Filipce to resign for his corruption and exceptionally bad results in fighting the epidemic

Macedonia has among the worst death rates of the coronavirus as result of the corruption of the Government, whose officials were chasing after kickbacks from the vaccine procurement instead of working to get the vaccines available as soon as possible, said Sergej Popov, president of the VMRO-DPMNE youth...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 13:09

SDSM tries to deflect attention away from the passports scandal

Faced with the growing scandal over the issuing of passports to regional mafia figures, the ruling SDSM party responded with counter-allegations against VMRO-DPMNE, over a decade old program to award passports to ethnic Macedonians to Albania. SDSM insisted that the practice, which is standard for all...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 12:57

Zaev’s corrupt adviser Raskovski withdrew from an arranged TV interview

Zaev’s scandalous adviser Dragi Raskovski still hasn’t surfaced in the public, even after the police raided his home and office yesterday, looking for evidence in the case in which he is suspected of receiving 80,000 EUR from the Interior Ministry for a software he developed. Raskovski reportedly...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 11:51

LIVE: Protest in front of the Healthcare Ministry

A protest rally is taking place in front of the Healthcare Ministry. Called by the VMRO-DPMNE party, protesters are demanding accountability from Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce. Filipce was caught trying to insert a shell company from American Samoa in the procurement of vaccines from Sinopharm,...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 11:40

VMRO-DPMNE calls on the Interior Ministry to explain the involvement of the Zaev family in the latest drug seizure

VMRO-DPMNE called on the Interior Ministry to disclose the involvement of the ruling Zaev family in the latest drug scandal – the arrest of the Prilep police commissioner yesterday while he was personally escorting a large shipment of marijuana. The drugs, worth 800,000 EUR, were driven in a van...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 09:25

Nikoloski: The mafia passports scandal will affect Macedonia’s EU accession

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski warned that the growing scandal revealing Zaev regime’s links to regional mafia organizations will damage Macedonia’s EU accession prospects. This scandal will certainly influence our European path. For three years, passports were issued to criminals...

Macedonia 10.04.21 | 08:52

Government will release the list of Zaev’s secret advisers on Monday

The Zaev Government announced it will reveal the names of nearly 60 part time advisers and employees from a list that was kept secret from the public on Monday. After the existence of the list was announced earlier this week, it was rumored that these advisers were tasked with publicly promoting the...