Tag: bombs
Macedonia 06.03.23 | 17:19

School bomb threats trail leads to Russia and Iran

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said that the emails that threaten bomb attacks in schools in the capital Skopje, and which paralyzed the education process for months, are being traced to Russia and Iran. Spasovski said that the Government prepared new instructions for school principals and that education...

Macedonia 05.03.23 | 21:45

The three bomb threat suspects that were caught will not be charged with terrorism

Prosecutors plan to charge the three persons that were caught emailing bomb threats with lesser crimes and not terrorism. The three arrests did not stop the waves of emailed bomb threats and it’s believed that the persons who were caught were pranksters, while the source of the massive threats...

Macedonia 04.03.23 | 15:27

Even as he faces going to prison, Dragi Raskovski offers his help to catch the source of the school bomb threats

Dragi Raskovski, the disgraced former chief of staff to Zoran Zaev, faces corruption charges, but is keeping himself busy by writing letters to the public on various burning topics. In his latest dispatch, Raskovski offers his help, as an IT expert, to uncover the source of the emailed bomb threats that...

Macedonia 03.03.23 | 14:48

Mickoski: Schools were advised to ignore emailed bomb threats

The continuous stream of emailed bomb threats targeting schools shows that the Interior Ministry is acting like amateurs, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. School principals are now being instructed to ignore the emailed bomb threats, he added. This is a shocking report I received today,...

Macedonia 28.12.22 | 21:23

Bomb threats emailed to schools in Skopje and Kumanovo were false

The latest round of bomb threats issued today, against schools in Skopje and Kumanovo, proved to be false. A total of 12 schools in Skopje and eight in Kumanovo had to be evacuated today. The police has made two arrests of minors, but the emailed threats keep coming. The Interior Ministry has been unable...

Macedonia 20.12.22 | 22:08

Mickoski on the wave of bomb threats: The security system is not functional, we need to convene the Security Council

In an interview with the Macedonian Television, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski blamed the Government of making the security system completely non-functional, as seen after the months of false bomb threats aimed at schools which have panicked the country. The security services have been unable...

Macedonia 01.12.22 | 20:45

Bomb threats against nine schools in Skopje were fake

After eight high schools and one elementary school in Skopje were targeted in the latest round of emailed bomb threats, the police today informed that all threats were found to be hoaxes. The schools had to be evacuated and the bomb squad was sent to examine them. The threats were sent over the past...

Macedonia 29.10.22 | 22:12

School bomb threats were emailed from a foreign country

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski informed that the false bomb threats that scared parents in the capital Skopje came from abroad. The emailed threats were aimed against high-schools in the capital, prompting several evacuations. Spasovski said that he is working “with our partners, to stop these...

Macedonia 12.07.20 | 21:41

Siljanovska: In a normal state, the prosecution would have reacted to the bombs

Professor Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, head of the candidate list of  the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE in the 1st electoral district referred Sunday on TV Telma’s “Top Tema” show to the campaign for the early parliamentary elections and everything which was talked about in the campaign. I...

Macedonia 19.06.20 | 16:45

Second audio bomb featuring the judge’s brother leaks, material for the ex-prime minister’s brother to be handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office

After an audio was published on social networks today in which, as described, features the voice of lawyer Vasil Dimiskov, the brother of judge Vesna Dimiskova, who is considered very close to Zoran Zaev, allegedly trying to extort 6 million euros from businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev in exchange for his...

Macedonia 27.02.20 | 16:13

While Zaev’s leaks were taken at face value, prosecutors want to examine the leaks revealing Zaev’s corruption before they act

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska asked for time to investigate the two audio leaks that implicate Zoran Zaev in the Racket scandal and in serious political interference in the judiciary. I sounds like a reasonable thing to do, but it is in stark contrast with the practice employed by prosecutors,...

Macedonia 27.02.20 | 15:48

“Bombs” about Zaev and several ministers: What will be heard in the next audio tapes!

The next “bombs” will contain audio material involving former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and several ministers, “Lider” reports. Informally, there is speculation about the existence of audio conversations showing the inappropriate and illegal behavior of at least two Zaev’s...

Macedonia 27.01.20 | 19:22

El Cheka publishes new “bombs”

Sekerim Ahmedi, known as El Cheka, continues to publish wiretaps involving senior DUI officials. According to him, they are involved in belittling acts, and the case of the murder of Harun Aliu is highlighted. Conversations are led mainly between DUI leader Ali Ahmeti with Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi,...

Macedonia 12.12.19 | 13:24

“Divo Naselje” defendant offered bombs related to “Monster” case to Fetai

Defendant in the “Divo Naselje” case Shefqet Hallaqi sent wiretapping materials to prosecutor Fatime Fetai in June this year in connection with the “Monster” case of the five-time murder near Smilkovsko Lake. Hallaqi called Fetai and told her that he had 140 GB of conversations...

Macedonia 24.10.19 | 14:16

Zaev: The most wiretapped were Crvenkovski and I, as well as journalists, professors and experts

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev testified Thursday in the “Target- Fortress” case after he gave an oath before the court to testify truthfully. He noted that he learned about illegal interception of communications when he became a leader in 2013 and when Zoran Verusevski was chairman of the security...

Macedonia 25.09.19 | 19:08

They offered me the “bombs”, but I didn’t accept them, Goran Mitevski tells “Alfa”

Former director of the Counterintelligence Agency Goran Mitevski told Alfa that he was offered the “bombs” but he did not accept them. Alfa reports that the “bombs” were offered as on the market. Before ending up with Zoran Verusevski and SDSM there were other options for delivery. One...

Macedonia 24.09.19 | 16:45

SDSM struggles to defend the official narrative about the 2015 wiretapping scandal after its own security chief pokes a huge hole in it

Following the shocking testimony by former spy chief Zoran Verusevski, who acknowledged that the tapes the SDSM party used in its power grab that started in 2015 were tampered, the party spokesman insisted today that the so-called “bombs” were legitimate. Following the arrest of Special Prosecutor...

Macedonia 16.09.19 | 10:40

Ahmeti: If there was crime involving DUI, no one would have spared us

Zoran Zaev’s coalition partner, Ali Ahmeti, at the election assembly of the party branch in Cair, told his party colleagues not to worry about El Cheka bombs. There were concerns among some of my party colleagues about some of the tapped materials. Let them, they are futile. If there was crime...

Macedonia 16.09.19 | 09:45

Ahmeti: What El Cheka publishes are just small bubbles, don’t pay attention to him

DUI President Ali Ahmeti spoke Sunday at the Cair election assembly about the bombs published by Shekerim Ahmeti – El Cheka. He said they were empty things and urged other political parties to measure their powers with party programs. What El Cheka publishes are just small bubbles, don’t...

Macedonia 07.09.19 | 19:35

If the SPO ceases to exist now, the bombs should also be destroyed

With the special prosecutor in prison, there is no legitimate legal representative in the trials in the SPO cases, Elenko Milanov, one of the lawyers of the defendants, said in an interview with Alf. As regards the transfer of SPO cases, Milanov thinks that this is not something that can be done overnight....

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