Tag: OTA
Macedonia 17.07.23 | 16:33

Secret service coordinate its use of a spying software with Greece

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Brane Petrusevski accused the OTA security service of wiretapping citizens using the Predator software. According to Petrusevski, who cites domestic and foreign media reports about his allegations, Macedonian intelligence purchased the software in 2020 and was coordinating...

Macedonia 26.06.23 | 16:47

MP Petrushevski: The PRO silence on the illegally acquired wiretapping equipment is unacceptable and scandalous

In order to activate the illegibly acquired wiretapping equipment, the Operational Technical Agency must obtain a permission from at least one of the telecommunication operators, and we publicly ask if they already did that, and which operator agreed to cooperate, VMRO-DPMNE MP Brane Petrushevski asked...

Macedonia 24.06.23 | 15:00

Petrushevski: Why PPO doesn’t react to OTA illegal acquisition of wiretapping equipment?

The Director of the Operative – Technical Agency (OTA) commissioned to monitor the communications, illegally acquired equipment for massive wiretapping, and the only one who could have approved it is PM Kovachevski, stated on Saturday VMRO-DPMNE MP Brano Petrushevski. “I and the other members...

Macedonia 16.06.23 | 17:57

OTA acquired communications monitoring equipment that may endanger national security, MP Petrushevski warns

The Parliamentary Communications Monitoring Oversight Committee has valid suspicion that the security services have undertaken steps that may disturb the national security, opening possibilities for abuse of the mechanisms for communications monitoring of over two million people, Brane Petrushevski,...

Macedonia 23.12.19 | 22:28

Pendarovski on OTA: In the year it exists, it is up to its task

The President’s Office informed Monday that one of the items of today’s Security Council was the report on the ongoing staffing and technical support processes of the Operational Technical Agency for which the OTA Director referred to the spatial staffing, non-staffing support, the technical...

Macedonia 08.10.19 | 17:07

OTA pays a monthly rent of 7,000 euros

The Operational-Technical Agency pays about 7,000 euros a month for rent, conditions in the Telekom building are not suitable for the operation of the institution, which was formed late last year as part of security intelligence system reforms as a mediator in the communications interception process...