Tag: fetai
Macedonia 25.03.22 | 10:44

As public trust in the Zaev regime judiciary drops to single digits, its top officials were seen partying together in Palermo

Just as the US Embassy called out the judiciary in Macedonia for its extremely low level of public trust, footage from Palermo showed the different branches of the judiciary palling together. In the stadium, watching the game, were Justice Minister Nikola Tupancevski, highly controversial prosecutor...

Macedonia 03.02.21 | 22:18

Islamic Community head supports the UCK chants, stands by the claim that the islamists accused of the 2012 Good Friday massacre are innocent

The office of the head of the Islamic Community in Macedonia Shaqir Fetai denied the claim that he denounced nationalist chants during the recent Albanian protest in Skopje. Protesters demanded the release of a group of Albanian islamists who killed four Christian Macedonian boys and a man in 2012, in...

Macedonia 29.09.20 | 20:01

Fetai defends her decision to drop the charges against Daniela Rangelova

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai, one of the top persons of the now dismantled, partisan Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), justified her decision to allow end the prosecution against former VMRO member of Parliament Daniela Rangelova in the trial over the 2013 protests in downtown Skopje. The charges against...

Macedonia 24.09.20 | 13:42

Final statements in the Centar trial postponed after the prosecution moved to protect one of the defendants

Judge Dusko Josifovski agreed to postpone the final statement from defendant Mile Janakieski in the 2013 Centar protests trial today. The decision came after prosecutor Fatime Fetai dropped all charges against one of the defendants – former member of Parliament Daniela Rangelova, a move that comes...

Macedonia 24.09.20 | 12:07

Charges dropped against SDSM’s “favorite opposition member”

Fatime Fetai, prosecutor from the now disbanded SPO unit, announced today that she is withdrawing the charges against former VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Daniela Rangelova. Rangelova was charged along with former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and former Minister Mile Janakieski in one of the cases...

Macedonia 12.03.20 | 18:39

From hero to zero: Katica Janeva asks her colleagues Fetai and Ristovska to testify on her behalf

Disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva annonced she will have her former colleagues Lence Ristovska, Fatime Fetai, Trajce Pelivanov and Gavril Bubevski as her first witnesses in the Racket trial. Janeva is accused of abusing her position to extort millions from businessmen she was prosecuting. Janeva,...

Macedonia 29.11.19 | 12:20

Milososki: Janeva and her staff need to pay back a million euros

Katica Janeva and her team will have to pay back a million euros they received in illegally paid bonuses, says VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki. Milososki, who was one of the targets of Janeva’s politically driven campaign which is now coming to an end with multiplying allegations of racketeering...

Macedonia 27.11.19 | 13:23

Fatime Fetai complains about being forced to do storage duties and insists that her SPO office was not raided

Fatime Fetai, one of the top deputies to disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, defended the payment of large bonuses to SPO prosecutors even as the institution is being investigated by its rivals from the OJO service. OJO prosecutors under Vilma Ruskoska raided the SPO yesterday, and seized documents...

Macedonia 25.09.19 | 13:05

Even after Verusevski’s shock confession, prosecutor Fetai says that his illegal wiretaps should still be used as evidence

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai, who was one of the top deputies to disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, said that the major blow against their cache of evidence inflicted by former spy chief Zoran Verusevski will not affect the on-going trials. Verusevski shocked the public earlier this week when, while...

Macedonia 13.09.19 | 13:51

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai laughed at in court

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai, from the disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office, was laughed out of court today when she asked that a hearing is postponed. The continued work of the SPO office, whose main prosecutor Katica Janeva is in detention, is uncertain as Janeva is trying a legally dubious maneuver...

Macedonia 26.07.19 | 11:57

Alternativa wants Janeva’s assistant Fatime Fetai to be the next Special Prosecutor

The small ethnic Albanian Alternativa party nominated Fatime Fetai to be the next Special Prosecutor. Fetai was one of the three public faces of the Special Prosecutor’s Office since 2016, along with Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and Lence Ristoska. Janeva was forced to tender her resignation...

Macedonia 23.07.19 | 16:59

All alone now: Even Fetime Fetai turns her back on Katica Janeva

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai, who along with Katica Janeva and Lence Ristoska, was one of the public faces of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, also turned her back on Janeva today. Fetai was noticeably absent last Tuesday, when in a shocking press conference led by Ristoska, the SPO office renounced...

Macedonia 24.01.19 | 17:31

DUI member of Parliament threatened SPO prosecutors

Ejup Alimi, member of Parliament from the ruling DUI party, allegedly threatened prosecutor Gavril Bubevski with assault, over one of the rare investigations the Special Prosecutor’s Office is conducting against DUI. This was revealed during an exchange in court when Bubevski asked Mefail Arslani,...