Answering a journalist’s question outside the Criminal Court late Wednesday following the detention of Katica Janeva, the chief of the Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime in charge of the “Racket” case, Vilma Ruskoska, confirmed that computer data had been deleted at the SPO.

Look, it’s known that some computer data have been deleted and as far as I know they are from associates working at the SPO. No computer data of any prosecutor has been deleted or formatted, Ruskoska said.

After some of the SPO employees alarmed, “360 Degrees” reported that on July 27 Janeva had ordered the IT sector to delete computer data at the Special Prosecutor’s Office. The SPO initially denied, but after several people acknowledged that some computers were permanently formatted at the institution and that the process was halted “to dispel doubts about any other motives”. The deleting did not affect the files stored on those computers, but the “traffic” information was irreversibly deleted – who, when and what did they do on those computers.