The 360 Degrees investigative news program reports that Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva ordered a “forensic level formatting” of the computers used by her office to delete traces of individual activities on them. The request was made after Janeva was pushed to announce her resignation as Special Prosecutor due to the arrest of her close associate Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 on racketeering charges.

360 Degrees reports that preparation for the move have been made, but the SPO office issued a denial of sorts. According to the news site, the verbal order from Janeva meant that the evidence and files stored on the computers would be kept, but traces of activities will be removed. The SPO denial insisted that Janeva did not give an order to delete evidence or files, but it did not deny the alleged order that traces of activities are deleted.

According to the report, this is the first time in the past four years that the SPO has been operational that Janeva ordered such a move. Janeva is not officially charged but she had her two phones seized last week, after Boki 13 was arrested on charges of extorting 1.5 million EUR in bribes from a businessman who was being prosecuted by Janeva to get her to go easy on him. Janeva initially claimed that she lost one of the phones, but it was found with her son’s girlfriend, who is an SPO employee. Her son Lazar Janev also had his computer seized, which he used in Boki 13’s 1TV television station, where he works.