The Skopje court sentenced former Transportation Minister Mile Janakieski to three and half years in prison in one of the numerous politically motivated trials of former VMRO-DPMNE officials. Here, Janakieski is charged with the eventually failed attempt to have an Israeli company develop a residential neighborhood near Skopje on publicly owned land.

The sentencing was based on the testimony of a forensics expert Boris Tundzev, which the defense wanted thrown out. Tundzev was an official of the Cadastre Office at the time the contract was signed, and was therefore biased, and his forensics license has lapsed when he made the report. He is also financier of the ruling SDSM party and his daughter was an SDSM candidate in the recent local elections, indicating political bias.

The court over-ruled all the objections raised by the defense and handed another sentence to Janakieski, who remains the most persecuted former officials by the Zaev – Kovacevski regime.