Tag: detention
Macedonia 20.07.23 | 11:45

Ismet Guri given 30 days detention

The Skopje Court ordered Ismet Guri, former official in the DUI party who broke with its leadership, to be detained for 30 days. Guri is suspected of a scheme to unlawfully pay tax rebates to companies he was in league with. Along with Guri, his son and a dozen others are being charged. The group extracted...
Macedonia 09.04.22 | 10:36

Court orders 30-day detention for Muhamed Zekiri

A judge in preliminary procedure of the Skopje-based Criminal Court late on Friday decided to accept the request of the prosecutor’s office for organized crime and corruption and issued a 30-day detention order for Government Secretary General Muhamed Zekiri, who has resigned from the post on suspicion...
Macedonia 22.12.21 | 20:09

Following public outrage, Saso Mijalkov ordered to remain in prison

The same day when the Appeals Court in Skopje allowed former state security chief Saso Mijalkov to leave detention under an 11 million EUR bail, a lower level court ordered him back into detention. The order was made on request of state prosecutors who are prosecuting Mijalkov for one of the numerous...
Macedonia 22.11.21 | 21:56

Court refuses request from prosecutors to have Mile Janakieski detained again

The Skopje Criminal Court today refused the latest request from prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska to order detention against former minister Mile Janakieski. Janakieski spent the past three years in house arrest – or in prison where he was violently assaulted, as he faced a long number of politically motivated...
Macedonia 07.06.21 | 16:55

Appeals Court rejects another request from Saso Mijalkov to be released from detention

Skopje Appeals Court rejected a request from former state security chief Saso Mijalkov to be released from detention. Mijalkov offered nearly 11 million EUR in bail, which were refused once, even though the prosecution accepted the terms. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison in two politically motivated...
Macedonia 04.06.21 | 18:48

Raskovski released from detention

The Court of Appeals accepted Friday the appeal of the defense and release former Secretary General of the Government Dragi Raskovski from detention. Earlier, it was confirmed that the Higher Prosecutor’s Office gave a positive opinion on the offered guarantee of half a million euros from Raskovski,...
Macedonia 16.04.21 | 19:23

Court releases Zaev’s top adviser Dragi Raskovski into house arrest

Dragi Raskovski, Zoran Zaev’s influential ex-adviser, was ordered into house arrest by the Skopje court his afternoon. Raskovski was arrested this morning and questioned before the judge in the case in which he is charged with arranging purchases of software he developed by the Government for a...
Macedonia 08.04.21 | 09:32

Six detained over the “passports for criminals” scandal

Six suspects, including Interior Ministry clerks, were ordered into detention for a month after they were arrested for issuing passports to high level regional criminals. Another two regional mobsters were given Macedonian passports by the Zaev regime The scandal was revealed by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE...
Macedonia 16.03.21 | 22:19

Court orders Jordan Kamcev to remain in detention

The Skopje court rejected an appeal from businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev and ordered him to remain in detention for 30 days. Kamcev is charged in one of the numerous politically motivated cases the Zaev regime instigated against former officials of the VMRO-DPMNE party. He was arrested allegedly because...
Macedonia 14.03.21 | 16:12

Court orders 30 days detention for Orce Kamcev

The Skopje court ordered 30 days detention for businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev, who is being charged by the Zaev regime for allegedly purchasing land on Mt. Vodno on behalf of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. Kamcev was arrested this morning, after prosecutors alleged that he was planning to escape. The...
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 15:52

The court will re-examine Mijalkov’s detention order in 60 days

After the sentencing of former secret police chief Saso Mijalkov, judge Dzeneta Begovic decided that his detention can be re-examined in two months. Mijalkov will now spend at least 60 days in the Sutka prison. His escape to Serbia over the weekend greatly contributed to the detention order. Mijalkov...
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 12:14

Prosecution demands that Mijalkov is sent into detention

The prosecution asked that Saso Mijalkov is ordered from house arrest into detention, after he was given a 12 years prison sentence today. Mijalkov fled the country briefly over the weekend, in an apparent deal with the Zaev regime, but returned under international pressure. The prosecution did not cite...
Macedonia 05.02.21 | 16:45

Court orders detention for the administrators of a Telegram group used to share underage porn

The Skopje court informed that it has approved the request from prosecutor, and ordered 30 days detention for the two administrators of a Telegram group where nude pictures of underage girls were shared. The large group, with over 5,000 members, was used to dox and harass girls and women, with members...
Macedonia 20.08.20 | 19:18

Ohrid court orders detention for the untouchable DUI party boss Nefi Useini

The Ohrid courrt ordered detention for the powerful local DUI party boss Nefi Useini after he was filmed beating a local man over a property dispute with the butt of his pistol. DUI party boss in Ohrid pistol whipped a citizen in front of his son The latest violent incident involving the untouchable...
Macedonia 06.02.20 | 10:22

Ten more days of house arrest for actress involved in the huge cocaine shipment intercepted off the coast of Spain

A Skopje judge ordered actress and political activist Silvija Stojanovska to remain in house arrest for 10 more days, following charges that she was involved in organizing a major transport of cocaine to the United Kingdom. The shocking arrest came in December, when it was revealed that her partner Voislav...
Macedonia 16.01.20 | 16:53

Actress Silvija Stojanovska, charged with helping a huge cocaine submarine transport to the UK, ordered to remain in house arrest

The Skopje court extended the house arrest order against actress Silvija Stojanovska, who is charged with a huge transport of cocaine from Columbia to the United Kingdom, using a submarine. Stojanovska was arrested almost a month ago and ordered into house arrest, while her partner Voislav Budisavlevic...
Macedonia 30.12.19 | 22:55

Appeals Court refuses Boki 13’s request to be released into house arrest

The Skopje Appeals Court rejected the request from the defense team representing Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 for his release from detention. Boki 13 is the last of the three main suspects in the major racketeering case who is still in prison. Former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and the third...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 15:54

Court releases the last of the dozen people suspected with the Alexander Palace hotel attack

The last of the 12 people arrested over the weekend in connection with last week’s mafia style attack in the Alexander Palace hotel was released. The prosecutors demanded detention for only of the dozen of suspects arrested in a series of raids in Skopje’s largely Albanian districts. Even...
Macedonia 03.10.19 | 10:16

Boki 13 to request his detention to be lifted at Court of Appeal

The first suspect in the “Racket” case Bojan Jovanovski will request Thursday his detention to be lifted at a public hearing in the Court of Appeal. The appellate judges will decide on Boki’s appeal after earlier the Criminal Court extended his detention for another 30 days. At a public...
Macedonia 01.10.19 | 13:54

Appeals Court orders that Janeva must remain in detention

The Appeals Court ordered that disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva should remain in detention for at least 30 more days. Janeva appealed the detention order before the Appeals Court and offered her property as bail, but the judges found that she is a flight risk. Her defense team insists...
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