Deputy Parliament Speaker Frosina Remenski, who is the highest official of the ruling SDSM party charged for her involvement in the major racketeering scandal, complained that her house was searched illegally by the police. Remenski issued a warning to unspecified individuals that they’ve “woken the bear”, which is the second time she has warned that she will not go quietly to jail.

I don’t like to talk much about this segment of my case, but i was the victim of an unlawful home search by the police. It was completely unlawful. Chasing a mouse you’ve woken the bear. I’m afraid that the reason for this is the publication of horrific abuses which somebody is not willing to resolve to the end, Remenski said.

The police search yielded confidential documents which Remenski, or her police official husband Jovce Remenski, unlawfully kept in their home. The police or the prosecutors did not reveal what’s in the documents, but Remenski said that she will reveal how Macedonian security agents were operating in foreign countries for the benefit of a third party, and similar police abuses.

Remenski is charged with using her power to get businessmen to give at least a million euros to her close friend Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, in a scheme in which a bogus charity was supposed to build retirement homes and then turn them into profitable, commercial real-estate. Apparently feeling that she is sold down river by her party, Remenski accused a rival SDSM appointed police official of working against her and reminded the public that she was not the only top SDSM official who was close to Boki 13. She said that the outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski were also meeting with Boki 13 and attending his events.