VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski told the Fokus magazine how Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva was blackmailing him directly, using one of her many cases against the opposition as a bargaining chip while demanding that VMRO votes to make her appointment permanent. Mickoski added that there are members of Parliament ready to testify against Janeva, as she threatened them to get them to vote for the imposed name change. Nine VMR0-DPMNE members of Parliament voted in favor of the name change, most of them after having criminal charges filed against them by Janeva or prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska.

The members of Parliament were subjected to pressures from Katica Janeva in the process of the constitutional change. They are ready to confirm this anywhere. I was personally the target of her blackmail, when she demanded that we vote for her appointment, and in exchange she would end the freeze order she placed on our party property. She sold out the law, and finally we ended up with the biggest scandal in recent Macedonian history, with the entire country seeing the suitcase with money and hearing Janeva’s comments. Do you believe that Janeva, Bojan Jovanovski and the other participants in this scandal could’ve done it all by themselves?, Mickoski told Fokus.