Tag: charges
Macedonia 01.11.22 | 10:36

Court approves charges against Zaev’s confidant Muhamed Zekiri

The Basic Court in Skopje approved the charges against Muhamed Zekiri, former chief of staff for Zoran Zaev, who is charged with corruption. This means that Zekiri will face trial. He is suspected of hiring Croatian experts to conduct an expensive analysis of the feasibility of selling the Macedonian...

Macedonia 08.04.22 | 10:45

Zekiri denies that he faces corruption charges

SDSM party official and Zoran Zaev’s close confidant Muhamed Zekiri told the press that he still hasn’t been notified about the corruption allegations against him. There is no such thing, Zekiri said, and then denied that he faces detention. State organized crime prosecutors informed the...

Macedonia 05.04.22 | 15:49

New charges against Skopje man who recruited for ISIS in 2015

A 30 year old man from Skopje, identified by the police as S.I., was charged with recruitment for ISIS. The man is already sentenced to ten years in prison for the same crime. He was first detained in 2015, along with 34 other mainly ethnic Albanian men, who joined ISIS, or recruited among the Albanian...

Macedonia 31.03.22 | 19:42

Charges filed against doctor responsible for a neglected boy who died of dehydration

Prosecutors from Demir Kapija are charging a local doctor who was tasked with caring for a badly neglected, disabled 11 year old boy who died in 2020 from dehydration. The boy from Ohrid, who had cerebral palsy, was abandoned by his parents and left on the street. After neighbors alarmed the public,...

Macedonia 29.03.22 | 18:17

Charges filed against two men involved in credit card fraud

Computer crimes police fild charges against two men from the village of Rasce near Skopje for stealing data from credit cards and then using them to make payments and purchase goods. One of the defendants was working at a sales point late last year, an used his phone to take photos of customers’...

Macedonia 23.02.22 | 13:06

City of Skopje proposes charges against four former officials over a failed IT contract

The City of Skopje asked state prosecutors to investigate and file charges four city officials who held top positions under the administration of former Mayor Petre Silegov. they are Silegov’s chief of staff Viktorija Avramovska – Madic, his IT director Nikola Trajkovski and his spokesmen...

Macedonia 29.12.21 | 15:57

Skopje court accepts the charges filed against Dragi Raskovski in his software scandal

The Skopje court accepted the charges brought by state prosecutors against Zoran Zaev’s former chief of staff Dragan Raskovski. The IT professor is charged with ordering the purchase of software that was not needed from a company that he had set up, pocketing over 80,000 EUR. He was detained in...

Macedonia 01.10.21 | 17:44

Private clinic in Skopje was paying its employees in cash

A manager of the Sante Plus gynecology hospital in Skopje was charged with paying the employees in cash. According to the charges, that were made public today, the practice was in place between 2016 and 2018. In this period, the hospital paid out over half a million EUR in cash, without paying the associated...

Macedonia 20.04.21 | 15:51

VMRO submits charges against Speaker Xhaferi and the two infected members of Parliament who broke their isolation orders

VMRO-DPMNE formally submitted a proposal for criminal charges against Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and two members of Parliament from the SDSM led coalition, who came to vote while infected with the coronavirus. Bisera Kostadinova – Stojcevska from SDSM and Miroslav Bogdanovski from affiliated...

Macedonia 18.02.21 | 18:02

Zaev’s regime is preparing new sets of politically motivated charges against opposition officials

The Zaev regime is planning new arrests of opposition officials and activists, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. VMRO has dozens of current and former officials who are charged in a politically driven campaign that began with the appointment of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva in 2016. Every...

Macedonia 24.12.20 | 17:13

Woman charged with leaving the Strumica hospital while positive to the coronavirus

A 58 year old woman from the village of Veljusa near Strumica is being charged for leaving the Strumica hospital while diagnosed with the coronavirus. The woman was hospitalized in early November, but decided to leave for a total of five days, without signing a dismissal statement and informing the staff.

Macedonia 29.10.20 | 21:23

Financial police announces charges against EU educational grants manager Lidija Dimova for abuses amounting over 400,000 EUR

The financial police revealed it is filing criminal charges against Lidija Dimova, the SDSM party activist who was appointed head of the agency tasked with managing EU educational funds and programs in Macedonia. Dimova is charged along with two associates, one of them also a leftist SDSM party activist,...

Macedonia Economy 16.10.20 | 17:44

Central Bank proposes charges against managers of the bankrupt Eurostandard Bank

The NBRM Central Bank announced it is proposing prosecutors file criminal charges against former managers of the Eurostandard Bank. The bank went bankrupt earlier this year after years of mismanagement and approving bad loans. NBRM said that it can’t reveal any more details about the nature of...

Macedonia 08.10.20 | 15:34

Prosecutors file charges against another outspoken critic of the Zaev regime – Antonio Milososki from VMRO

Skopje prosecutors announced they are going ahead with their charges against VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki. The case stems from the now discredited Special Prosecutor’s Office, and is the latest judicial assault against an outspoken critic of the Zaev regime. Milososki is charged with asking...

Macedonia 01.09.20 | 17:28

Judge orders initial 30 days of detention for the three arrested Islamists

The court ordered 30 days in detention for the three Islamists who were arrested today as they were apparently preparing suicide attacks. The men, who had fought with ISIS in the past, were stockpiling weapons and explosive suicide vests in a rural area south of Kumanovo. Security officials said that...

Sport 28.07.20 | 15:37

Former head of the Macedonian Football Federation charged with abuse of office

Former head of the Macedonian Football Federation Ilco Gorgioski and his main financial officer Olgica Mladenovska were charged with money laundering today. According to the charges, Mladenovska signed and Gorgioski approved payments to companies for goods and services that were never delivered. The...

Macedonia 03.07.20 | 15:02

Boki 13 is prepared to testify against at least 30 people

Saso Dukoski, the lawyer representing extortionist Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, said that he delivered proposals for initiating charges that will eventually inlcude dozens of people who were involved in the Racket scandal. Boki 13 was recently sentenced to nine years in prison for racketeering,...

Macedonia 12.06.20 | 19:43

Actress Silvija Stojanovska and her partner officially charged with transporting 700 kilos of Colombian cocaine

Almost a year after a submarine loaded with nearly 700 tons of cocaine was seized off the coast of Spain, Macedonian state prosecutors announced they have finalized charges against actress Silvija Stojanovska and her partner Vojislav Budisavljevic. Budisavljevic is believed to be one of the main organizers...

Macedonia 28.05.20 | 20:25

Two men from Strumica charged with migrant trafficking

Two men from the village of Gradosorci near Strumica were charged with migrant trafficking. The men, both aged 27, were linked to two trafficking incidents in February when they were transporting 15 and then 47 migrants in the area of Strumica road. Most of the illegal migrants were from Afghanistan...

Macedonia 08.05.20 | 17:36

Macedonian living in Germany charged with sending insulting messages by email and Facebook

A Macedonian citizen who lives in Germany is being charged for the insulting comments he made on Facebook and via email. The man, identified by the police as B.P. (32), wrote a threatening and insulting email to a Government official two days ago. The man also sent a similar message to a TV24 journalist,...

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