Tag: dzolev
Macedonia 17.02.23 | 14:18

Boki 13 says the regime wants to see him die in prison, rather than testify about high level corruption

Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, who is sentenced to 9 years in prison for his role in the major Racket scandal, accused the Government and its loyal judges of carrying out a campaign of terror against him. Jovanovski was part of a major racketeering ring led by Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, which...

Macedonia 21.10.21 | 16:42

Boki 13 testified that Zaev was influencing court verdicts through a key judge he had appointed

Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, the key person in the major Racket scandal, today testified that Zoran Zaev was abusing his power to order verdicts. Boki 13 said that Zaev was using his loyal President of the Skopje I court Ivan Dzolev to order tailor made sentences. I have indications I keep on my...

Macedonia 29.07.21 | 12:05

Two weeks after claiming he is receiving offers of bribe, Judge Dzolev still hasn’t reported any specific case to the prosecutors

It’s been two weeks since one of the top officials of the Zaev regime in the judiciary said that he is frequently approached by people offering him bribes, and he still hasn’t formally reported any such instance. Judge Ivan Dzolev is President of the Skopje criminal court. He was trying to...

Macedonia 21.07.21 | 13:33

Judge Dzolev hasn’t reported any of the bribe offers he claims he has received to prosecutors

Judge Ivan Dzolev, one of the key supporters of the Zaev regime in the judiciary, still hasn’t reported any of the instances where he said he was approached and offered a bribe. Dzolev made the statement recently, when he was trying to defend his track record and that of the Zaev regime for the...

Macedonia 15.07.21 | 15:57

Judge Dzolev insists that the interrupted SPO cases will resume and will be fast-tracked

Judge Ivan Dzolev, who was appointed by the Zaev regime to lead the Skopje criminal court and who is key in the on-going persecution of opposition officials, insisted that he will fast-track the dozen politically motivated cases which now have to begin from start. The reason for this set-back in Zaev’s...

Macedonia 09.06.21 | 22:48

VMRO-DPMNE representative fined in court after protesting a politically motivated trial

The Skopje court handed a 3,000 EUR fine to VMRO-DPMNE after the party’s representative Dimitar Arsovski left a hearing today. The party and its officials are facing numerous politically motivated trials initiated by the Zaev regime, and this particular case seems designed to block VMRO funding...

Macedonia 07.06.21 | 23:02

Judge Dzolev is behind the latest judicial attack on the opposition

Judge Mitko Sandev, who was named today as the culprit in the latest push by the Zaev regime to undermine the opposition in the run up to the municipal elections, refused to speak to the press. Sandev was reached by the Netpress news site, but insisted that the reporters talk to the President of the...

Macedonia 25.03.20 | 18:58

Judges insist that trials of opposition officials and activists must continue despite the epidemic

Criminal trials in the Skopje courthouse, many of which are part of the campaign of the ruling SDSM party against the opposition, have been ordered to continue despite the coronavirus epidemic. Court President Ivan Dzolev ordered that the so-called “Titanic” trial, one of the many politically...

Macedonia 20.03.20 | 17:49

Despite the epidemic, Skopje court orders a hectic schedule of trials against Zaev’s political prisoners

Political dissident Bogdan Ilievski pointed out that the criminal court in Skopje, led by SDSM party loyalist judge Ivan Dzolev, has scheduled 320 hearings in the coming month, at the peak of the coronavirus epidemic. The Zaev regime is relying on dozens upon dozens of criminal cases initiated against...

Macedonia 20.03.19 | 11:38

Judge Dzolev accused of tampering with the court allocation system

According to the Magazin news site, Criminal Court President Ivan Dzolev is abusing the system for random allocation of court cases, which can lead to having the most politically obedient judges assigned to the cases of importance for the Zoran Zaev Government. Magazine reports based on statements from...