VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski blasted the chaotic events over the Special Prosecutor’s Office these past few days as an attempt by the Zoran Zaev Government to ensure that it still has the power to prosecute the opposition on politically driven charges. In a few orders of dubious legitimacy, Janeva resigned after she asked her SPO staff to give all their case files to the OJO service of state prosecutors.

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva wants her cases to be handed over to the office led by Vilma Ruskoska, for safe keeping. From one SDSM led office to another, all for the purpose of continuing their campaign of political persecution. The Government is preparing a contingency, in case Katica Janeva sinks even further in the fallout from her criminal actions, and they want Ruskoska to carry on instead of her. It will all be in vain. Step by step we are getting closer to the top names in the scandal, to the head of the criminal octopus, Mickoski said during an event organzied in honor of the Macedonian Independence Day in Skopje’s Gazi Baba municipality.

Mickoski warned that there is an on-going attempt to cover up the criminal scandal which involves top SDSM party officials.

The fact that the entire SDSM party leadership was involved in this “charity” organization set up by Boki 13 is not seen as an important issue by the prosecutors. The extortion worth millions raises suspicions that the money were used to fund the SDSM election campaigns. This needs to be investigate, why was this charity association full of SDSM officials. Was Bihacka (SDSM party headquarters) the final destination of the suitcases full of money?The truth will come out, maybe not under these strictly controlled prosecutors, but I promise you, it will come out. I call on the judges and the prosecutors to resist the pressures of the Government and to remember that any action they take in violation of the law will be reviewed. Don’t be slaves to those who are in free fall, and would drag you with them, Mickoski warned.

It is expected that political leaders will meet next week to discuss the scandal, even as the Government is in all likelyhood attempting to shut down the SPO office of prosecutors and give all its powers to the OJO office, also seen as very close to the ruling SDSM party.