Tag: anb
Macedonia 01.11.24 | 08:58

SDSM – DUI intelligence officers were spying on Mickoski

SDSM – DUI Government conducted surveillance of opposition officials with drones, and this is now being investigated by the security services, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski during the question time in Parliament today. Drones were flying over my house, and when I would hold meetings in...
Macedonia 18.10.24 | 09:18

Mickoski: The ANB director was fired after he didn’t submit a security report for over two months

Bojan Hristovski was named new head of the ANB security service after, as Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said, the previous management of the agency did not submit a security briefing to him for two months. The heavily politicized institution was led by Zaev loyalists, after he and a number of disgraced...
Macedonia 28.12.22 | 22:32

The ruling coalition is trying to prevent a full investigation into the Ukrainian oligarch scandal

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Brane Petrusevski said that the ruling coalition is trying to prevent having a full and serious investigation into the scandal with the issuing of a Macedonian passport to a pro-Russian oligarch from Ukraine who is on a US black list. The majority in Parliament is blocking...
Macedonia 23.12.22 | 11:05

New secret service head mishandled the 2015 attack on Kumanovo

After the appointment of police official Zarko Milosevski as head of the powerful ANB security service, questions were raised about his role in responding to the 2015 attack on the city of Kumanovo. The attack was carried out by five dozen well armed Albanian terrorists who crossed into Macedonia from...
Macedonia 01.11.22 | 09:57

Nikoloski: The secret service is wiretapping VMRO-DPMNE

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski said that the ANB security service – which dates back to the communist era UDBA or UBK – is wiretapping the opposition. The UBK, now ANB, is the gravedigger of all Macedonian governments so far. They all fell because of their unprincipled marriage...
Macedonia 05.11.21 | 14:25

Agents of the Zaev regime ordered into detention for extorting money from a businessman

The Skopje court ordered detention for two persons who were arrested yesterday for extorting money from businessmen. One of them, an agent of the ANB/NSA security agency – the largest and most notorious secret police service in Macedonia, was approached a businessman and demanded 75,000 EUR. In...
Macedonia 15.12.20 | 09:49

Mickoski: The Government is undermining trust in our intelligence agencies just so it can make baseless allegations against me

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski accused the Zaev regime of further devaluating security services in Macedonia by using them to put out false allegations that the opposition is working for foreign interests. An example of this was made by Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Dimitrov just yesterday. Nikoloski:...
Macedonia 11.12.20 | 20:02

ANB agent caught extorting money from a businessman

An agent of the ANB security agency and an accomplice are being charged with extorting money from a company in Skopje. The two presented electronic data to the owner of the company that he is under an investigation by Interpol, for alleged abuses in providing visas to Kosovan citizens and selling Covid-19...
Macedonia 31.07.20 | 15:36

Media associations react as journalist faces charges for reporting on the politization of the secret police

The ZNM and SSNM associations of journalists called on the state prosecutors to drop their case against Ljupco Zlatev, the editor of the Lider news site, who is being charged with revealing a classified document. The document showed how the powerful ANB secret police service is being politicized by rejecting...
Macedonia 29.05.20 | 13:31

New security agency remains silent after Minister Culev accused it of violating electronic surveillance laws

The newly founded ANB security agency and the interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski have remained silent days after Interior Minister Nake Culev revealed that the agency is abusing its powers for surveillance of the opposition. Culev said that the ANB agency still has the ability to abuse its wiretapping...
Macedonia 01.10.19 | 14:52

Opposition representative in the Committee to vet the intelligence agents resigns, says the process was corrupt from the start

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Trajce Dimkov resigned from the Committee set up to vet police offices and agents being transferred from the UBK intelligence agency into the newly formed ANB agency. Dimkov said that the work of the Committee has been compromised from the start, as allegations grow that...

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