Tag: detention
Macedonia 18.09.19 | 15:42

Janeva will remain in detention for additional 30 days

A Skopje court ordered that disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva will remain in detention for additional 30 days. Janeva’s defense team pledged her property as guarantee that she will remain in the country if she were to be released or sent into house arrest. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev...
Macedonia 18.09.19 | 10:24

Prosecutor Ruskoska demands additional 30 days detention for Katica Janeva

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska asked the courts to order additional 30 days in detention for disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who is charged with abusing her office to extort millions from businessmen she was prosecuting. Ruskoska cites the danger of Janeva fleeing the country,...
Macedonia 13.09.19 | 10:41

Boki 13 given additional 30 days detention

A Skopje court ordered the controversial showman Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 into another 30 days detention. This is the third such detention order for Boki 13, whose arrest in mid July kicked off the major racketeering scandal. Boki 13 is charged with extorting 1.5 million EUR from businessman...
Macedonia 21.08.19 | 21:14

Katica Janeva goes to Sutka prison

After several hours of questioning, the Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention for Katica Janeva as a third suspect in the “Racket” case. She has the right to appeal through her lawyers to the criminal council. The Prosecutor’s Office for prosecution of organized crime and corruption...
Macedonia 13.08.19 | 16:27

Court orders Boki 13 and his accomplice to remain in detention for another month

The court ordered additional 30 days detention for Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 and Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kicheec, the only defendants in the massive corruption scandal that has shaken Macedonia. The two were arrested nearly a month ago, on the suspicion that they extorted 1.5 million EUR from...
Macedonia 17.07.19 | 12:19

VMRO-DPMNE demands that Katica Janeva is detained before she destroys evidence of her ties to the top of the SDSM party

VMRO-DPMNE demands to know why outgoing Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva hasn’t been detained yet, given that she is in a position to greatly influence the on-going investigation in the Boki 13 racketeering case. The opposition party also demands that prosecutors publish the names of the two high...
Macedonia 16.07.19 | 00:28

Judge orders a month in detention for Boki 13

The judge ordered a 30 days detention against Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, following his interrogation late this evening. Earlier, his alleged accompolice Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kicheec, was also ordered into a month long detention in the Sutka prison. The 1TV television owner and reality show...
Macedonia 15.07.19 | 23:34

Boki 13’s accomplice given 30 days detention

A deputy warden in the Sutka prison confirmed that Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kicheec, suspected of being an accomplice for Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 in the major developing blackmail scandal was ordered 30 days detention. Kicheec was the first of the two to be interrogated today, as the charges...
Macedonia 11.07.19 | 13:40

Mile’s condition gets worse, Appeals Court is silent, the Ombudsman does not answer

Visibly weakened, nervous, exhausted, confused – that’s the condition of Mile Janakieski, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days in the Sutka prison, his wife Sanja Janakieski and the lawyers testify. Although he does not want us to inform the public about his condition, this no longer...
Macedonia 28.06.19 | 18:18

Detention requested for six of the seven people who were detained this morning

Detention has been requested for six of seven persons suspected of abuse of official position and unethical work in the service, which were arrested this morning with four more, and precautionary measure for one, prosecutor Ivana Trajceva informed. The prosecutor clarified that it was a matter of concluding...
Macedonia 11.06.19 | 11:11

30 days detention for corrupt Public Administration Ministry official who rigged an EU project

Jahi Jahija, the number three official in the Macedonian Ministry for Public Administration and Information Technology, was ordered into a 30 day detention following his arrest on corruption charges. The high level DUI party official is charged with accepting paid trips and 40.000 EUR in bribes from...
Macedonia 18.04.19 | 18:05

Opposition party leader ordered into house arrest for the remainder of the election campaign

Skopje court ordered the leader of the GROM party Stefco Jakimovski to remain in house arrest for additional 30 days. Jakimovski was charged by state prosecutors shortly after he publicly endorsed the opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova for President, and was prevented from participating...
Macedonia 15.03.19 | 22:04

Court orders detention for all 16 defendants in ‘April 27’ case

The Criminal Council of the Skopje Court ordered detention for all 16 defendants in the April 27, 2017 Parliament storming case, who were sentenced Friday to a total of 211 years in prison. Sentences ranging from 7 to 15 years in prison were handed to sixteen of the seventeen defendants.  Opera singer...
Macedonia 13.03.19 | 12:42

Fake testimony used to order detention of former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov

Saso Dukovski, lawyer to former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov, says that his client was detained on Monday evening based on an unreliable statement from an alleged friend who claimed that Cavkov plans to leave Macedonia for Greece. The statement alleged that Cavkov owns a house east of Solun/Thessaloniki,...
Macedonia 13.03.19 | 10:56

Professor Kalajdziev: Ordering detention before sentencing for Mitko Cavkov is unprecedented

Law professor and former pro-SDSM Colored Revolution activist Gordan Kalajdziev condemned the detention order against former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov as unprecedented. Cavkov, who refused amnesty and awaits sentencing in the April 2017 case, was arrested on Tuesday evening, ahead of the sentencing,...
Macedonia 01.02.19 | 21:43

Detention for Cvetkov and Delev – house arrest for Aco Spasenoski due to deteriorating health

Former minister Mihail Cvetkov and former deputy minister Kristijan Delev were detained, while Aco Spasenoski, was given home detention due to his deteriorating health condition, for which he submitted medical documentation to the prosecution. This morning, the court ordered their arrests and during...
Macedonia 28.12.18 | 13:06

Court set to decide on request to release Saso Mijalkov from detention

The Skopje Criminal Court is expected to make a decision on whether to release former UBK secret service chief Saso Mijalkov from detention. Mijalkov was detained last month as part of the investigation into allegedly corrupt business deals. He faces a number of other charges initiated by the Special...
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