Tag: Appeals Court
Macedonia 15.08.23 | 20:28

Skopje Appeals Court defends decision to half prison sentence for drunk driver who killed a little girl

The Skopje Appeals Court issued a statement defending the recent verdict against a motorist from Veles who killed an 11 year old girl. Magdalena Ivanova was killed on a pedestrian crossing while her mother was injured by the driver, who was drunk and fled the scene. The local court handed him a sentence...
Macedonia 03.04.23 | 18:11

Appeals Court throws out April 27th sentences, sends the case back to the lower court

The Skopje Appeals Court accepted appeals from the defendants in the April 27th trial and returned the process back for retrial. The case is aimed against former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, two former ministers Spiro Ristovski and Mile Janakieski, and former state security chief Vladimir Atanasovski,...
Macedonia 30.04.21 | 18:02

Kamcev’s offer of a 1.7 million EUR bond rejected by the court

The Appeals Court refused an offer from businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev for a bond of 1.7 million EUR. Kamcev is detained over one of the politically motivated cases initiated by former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva – whose office was dismantled after Kamcev revealed her extortion attempts against...
Macedonia 12.03.21 | 13:42

Skopje Appeals Court orders Saso Mijalkov to remain in detention

The Skopje Appeals Court rejected a request from former security chief Saso Mijalkov against his detention order. This means that Mijalkov will likely remain in detention for the remainder of his 60 days order, given to him on December 26th when he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the 2015 wiretapping...
Macedonia 04.09.20 | 20:53

Appeals Court shows further leniency to Racket scandal extortionist Zoki Kiceec

The Skopje Appeals Court partially accepted the appeal from Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kiceec – one of the three main defendants in the major Racket scandal. The court approved of the original sentence – three years in prison, but will relent in the verdict which required Kiceec to have a...
Macedonia 23.06.20 | 17:33

Skopje Appeals Court postpones criminal case trials after two judges test positive

The Skopje Appeals Court is scaling down its work after two judges were found to have Covid-19. Court President Lidija Dimcevska told Sitel TV that they are mapping out the contacts the two judges had at work, and are postponing the criminal cases. The Anti-Corruption Commission is also testing its employees...
News 21.11.19 | 22:53

A very sick unemployed single mother is the condition for house arrest

The Skopje Appeals Court’s decision to release former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva under house arrest states that the defendant in “Racket” is a woman and a single mother, with regular medical treatment, unemployed and without property. The Skopje Appeals Court endorsed the claims...
Macedonia 21.11.19 | 19:33

Janeva’s apartments were not worth enough to get out of custody on bail, so she was released without any guarantee

Katica Janeva offered little money to get out of custody on bail, writes Alsat M. Her children’s 160,000-euro apartments were not worth enough to persuade the appeals judges to release her from the Sutka prison. And the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office, when giving a negative opinion on...
Macedonia 21.11.19 | 13:59

Ruskoska summoned before the Council of Prosecutors after threatening to take down a number of Appeals Court judges

The Council of Public Prosecutors summoned organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska to answer about her threat aimed at the Skopje Appeals Court judges. Ruskoska announced a financial investigation into the judges and reportedly sent a text message to at least one judge that she will make them “quake...
Macedonia 20.11.19 | 09:32

Appeals Court to report Ruskoska for a threatening message

Following the release of former SPO chief Katica Janeva under house arrest, and after prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska sent a text message to one of the three judges who decided to release Katica that she will investigate the financial situation of Skopje’s Appeals Court justices, the Appeals Court is alarmed,...

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