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Macedonia 11.09.19 | 14:54

SDSM and DUI vote against VMRO proposal to remove Katica Janeva from her office

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament proposed a start to the discussion on dismissing disgraced hat Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva from her office, but the proposal was rejected by the most members from the ruling SDSM and DUI parties. The two ruling parties previously supported the Committee proposal...
Macedonia 11.09.19 | 11:17

Janusev: We can’t allow the appointment of another Katica Janeva

VMRO-DPMNE Secretary General Igor Janusev declared Zoran Zaev’s request to appoint Vilma Ruskoska as the new Special Prosecutors as an attempt to install a new Katica Janeva – prosecutor loyal to the SDSM party and who will protect SDSM officials and prosecute only members of the opposition. Macedonia...
Macedonia 11.09.19 | 07:28

Meeting of party leaders fails as Zaev refuses to allow placing his Government under investigative scrutiny

The meeting between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski yesterday evening failed. The two were discussing the law on state prosecutors until deep into the night, but could not agree on the principles of the issue or on the personnel choices. Zaev, who already appointed...
Macedonia 11.09.19 | 00:53

Zaev pushing for another loyal prosecutor – Vilma Ruskoska – to replace Katica Janeva

Following a break of half an hour, the talks between Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski resumed, despite being after midnight. According to unofficial reports, Zaev’s side insists that Vilma Ruskoska, a prosecutor seen as loyal to the Government, is installed as the new head of the disgraced Special...
Macedonia 10.09.19 | 23:33

Both sides say that no progress has been made, agree only that “the SPO is dead”

The meeting of the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM is currently on a break. Both sides say that no progress has been made. The only mutually agreed point is that the Special Prosecutor’s Office is finished, it’s dead, a VMRO-DPMNE source briefed. A source from the ruling SDSM party also said...
Macedonia 10.09.19 | 23:24

Who is allowing Janeva to use a computer while in prison?, law professor asks

Law professors Gordan Kalajdziev asked the warden of the Sutka prison to explain how is it possible that disgracd Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva has access to a computer while being detained. Janeva sent out two orders to her Special Prosecutor’s Office from prison, ordering them to hand over...
Macedonia 10.09.19 | 16:46

Xhaferi says the Parliament will be ready to act on whatever agreement the leaders reach this evening

In anticipation of the late evening meeting between the leaders of the two largest parties – Hristijan Mickoski (VMRO-DPMNE) and Zoran Zaev (SDSM), Speaker Talat Xhaferi said that he will be prepared to put any solution before Parliament as early as tomorrow. Xhaferi said that it is possible the...
Macedonia 06.09.19 | 15:19

Zaev again endorses Janeva’s plan to give away all the SPO cases

Zoran Zaev today, for the second day in a row, endorsed the move by disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva to order her staff to give up all their case files in favor of the OJO office of state prosecutors. The move is widely seen as illegal given the law provides that prosecutors who are detained,...
Macedonia 06.09.19 | 14:29

Kalajdziev says it’s clear the Special Prosecutor was appointed only to bring down VMRO and not to deliver justice

Criminal law professor Gordan Kalajdziev, who was an outspoken Colored Revolution activist and as such was seriously considered for the position of Special Prosecutor, today acknowledged that the whole purpose of the SP office was to remove the VMRO-DPMNE party from office. In a statement with the Fokus...
Macedonia 06.09.19 | 14:03

Ljubomir Frckoski’s wife is the new defense lawyer for Katica Janeva

After Stevan Pavleski withdraw from defending her, disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva hired a new lawyer – Irena Frckoska, the wife of controversial law professor and former SDSM party presidential candidate Ljubomir Frckoski. Janeva is charged with abusing her powerful position as Special...
Macedonia 06.09.19 | 12:46

Council of public prosecutors says they haven’t received any resignation letter from Janeva

The Council of public prosecutors informed today that they still haven’t received a resignation note from Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Yesterday a number of news sites close to Janeva and the Special Prosecutor’s Office informed that she sent out a handwritten resignation letter from...
Macedonia 05.09.19 | 20:59

Mickoski says that the Special Prosecutor drama is an attempt by the SDSM party to transfer her powers to another politically compromised prosecutor

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski blasted the chaotic events over the Special Prosecutor’s Office these past few days as an attempt by the Zoran Zaev Government to ensure that it still has the power to prosecute the opposition on politically driven charges. In a few orders of dubious legitimacy,...
Macedonia 05.09.19 | 20:01

Katica Janeva submits her resignation

Disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva today sent out another letter from prison, this time to submit her resignation. Janeva already submitted a conditional resignation in mid July, as soon as her associate Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 was arrested on racketeering charges, but then she added...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 15:53

THE KATICA JANEVA SCANDAL – BACKGROUND AND LATEST NEWS

Given the importance of the developing racketeering scandal in Macedonia, Republika has prepared full background and analysis of the events so far, to be updated daily. Background The scandal What’s new Nikola Gruevski warned that, while the public is focusing on the details of the Katica Janeva...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 15:45

Katica Janeva’s attempt to issue orders to her prosecutors from prison is not acceptable, the opposition says

Katica Janeva’s unexpected move today to order her staff to give all their case-files to Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski was met with amazement. Janeva is detained, and as such she should not direcly communicate with other persons or institutions, except through her lawyer, said VMRO-DPMNE member...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 14:47

Council of public prosecutors tries to keep its report on Katica Janeva classified

The newly appointed President of the Council of public prosecutors Aleksandar Koleski rejected the request that the Council’s report on Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva is declassified. A Parliament Committee is set to begin debating the report tomorrow, in a move which is expected to lead to Janeva’s...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 13:52

Gruevski warns about long term consequences for Macedonia’s rule of law, sovereignty and financial stability

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski published his first comments on the major corruption scandal that has brought down the Special Prosecutors’ Office and has implicated top officials of the SDSM party and the Zaev Government in high level corruption. Gruevski, who now lives in...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 12:01

Janeva ordered that all her cases are given to Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski

From the Sutka prison, disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva issued an order to return all the cases her department is working on to the OJO office of public prosecutors. The news broke today, and PressingTV reports that Janeva gave her assistants three days to hand over their files to Public Prosecutor...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 11:23

Parliament debate on removing Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva begins tomorrow

A Parliament Committee begins debate tomorrow on dismissing the disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. The Council of public prosecutors made the recommendation to dismiss Janeva to the Parliament after examining the allegations of abuse of office and corruption raised against her, as she was detained...
Macedonia 03.09.19 | 18:25

Former Public Prosecutor Stevan Pavleski will not be representing Katica Janeva any longer

Former Public Prosecutor Stevan Pavleski withdrew as lawyer for disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Pavleski represented Janeva in her initial hearing, when she was ordered into a month long detention on the charge of extorting money from a businessman who she was prosecuting. His hiring drew...
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