The same day when the Appeals Court in Skopje allowed former state security chief Saso Mijalkov to leave detention under an 11 million EUR bail, a lower level court ordered him back into detention.

The order was made on request of state prosecutors who are prosecuting Mijalkov for one of the numerous politically motivated cases the Zaev regime launched against former VMRO-DPMNE officials. The announcement that Mijalkov could leave jail, after his escape attempt in February, caused outrage in the public. It was criticized by VMRO-DPMNE, which was target of Mijalkov’s political machinations after he switched sides and openly joined forces with Zaev in 2018.